The Value of Human Life and The Right to Death : Some Reflections on Cruzan and Ronald Dworkin

These reflections focus on three members (one professor and two alumni) of my Oxford college. Though University College officially bears the name The Great Hall of the University of Oxford, it is only one of that university\u27s 30 colleges, and not a particularly large one-only about 450 students and teaching fellows like myself. My title\u27s focus on one named law professor may already seem narrow. How then, you may wonder, can adding two more names from the same little institution in England make this lecture less parochial, and more relevant to Southern Illinois