Title: Ellen Goodman: Who Lives? Who Die? Who Decides?

1. As you read, make a list of the open, unanswered questions that Ellen Goodman asks in this essay. Once you have the list in front of you, write a paragraph as a first response to those questions. 

2. What facts are not in dispute in this essay? Make a list of them. Then, write two sentences about what you understand as you read this list.

3. Goodman’s essay comes to a quite definite conclusion: “disconnecting him from life would be a dangerous precedent.” Understand this conclusion as thoroughly as you can: what principles or assumptions made Goodman to it?

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