Commentaries on "Is There a Duty to Die?"

While he was governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm became, for a time, a troubling national presence, not as a result of his politics but because of the challenge he issued to the citizenry in every state. At an autumnal age, he said, it is a moral responsibility to make room for the young. As leaves fall from the trees in the fall, so old people have a duty to die.