And they have perfectly reasonable fears – about death, family, school – that they often struggle to find language for.
To qualify for help to die, a patient's request must be "durable," he or she must face "unbearable suffering" and have no "reasonable alternative" to death.
They were also accused of violating a section of public health law that requires that a body be buried or incinerated "within a reasonable time after death".
It says that a crime has been committed when e-mail "causes substantial emotion distress" or places the victim in "reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury".
"If the state can't prove guilt in the first trial, how can they argue there's a reasonable prospect the death sentence will be imposed on a second trial?" Mr. Wixted asked.
Is a failure to sustain independent life a reasonable definition of death?
Here, all Zimmerman needed to show was a "reasonable" fear of death or great bodily harm, coupled with no avenue of retreat.
"I am floored that they have restricted it in this way with respect to the advanced state of irreversible decline and reasonable foreseeability of death".
