Op-Ed: A Conservative Case for Immortality

October 5, 2006

One of the sharpest dividing lines we experience as human beings — the difference between life and death — has long been a part of American politics. In the abortion debate (and related), the battle lines have been drawn, with most conservatives coming down on the side of life, which is understood as not interfering with human development at the beginning of life. Likewise in the controversy over euthanasia: for conservatives, life is best left well enough as it is, allowed to run its course, without a medical bureaucracy stepping in to decide if death would be a superior social outcome. (TCS Daily)