Bioethicist apologizes for 'right-to-die' views
LANSING, MI, Oct. 11, 2004 -- "I wish now to apologize publicly for the teaching and writing I did around some cases that involved persons with disabilities who requested the 'right to die' by refusing life-sustaining therapy. There were a number of such cases, most notably that of Elizabeth Bouvia in Riverside, CA, a sufferer from cerebral palsy who wished to starve herself to death"...and David Rivlin, who "appealed to a county court to be allowed to die by having the ventilator disconnected."