In the age of Kevorkian, the subject of physician-assisted death won't go away. Our guests are almost too far apart to engage each other's arguments. For Father Fitzpatrick (whose doctoral dissertation was on personal autonomy and the right to commit suicide), it matters deeply that, if physician-assisted suicide were legalized, "for the first time in American society, and probably in the West, we will now have private killing authorized by public law." For Dr. Brock, "I think simply that that Christian tradition, powerful though it is, shouldn't be imposed on all of society, because a significant portion of society doesn't accept at least that part of the Christian tradition."