"In the most sophisticated modern-day examination of dignity, Beyleveld and Brownsword also contend: [T]he right to choose is a basic expression of one's dignity; and there is no more fundamental expression of one's dignity than the right to make life-saving or life-terminating choice. Dignity, in other words, is embedded in the right to choose itself, irrespective of the aprticular choice that one makes.60 In this regard, dignity is being used both as a behicle to justify something as being important and then also as a means to extinguish it and thereby detract from its importance in the most direct fashion possible."
January 1, 1970