Each year, thousands of Americans die while engaging in activities that involve some degree of risk. Although these activities provide no essential social benefit, society bears the cost of injuries and deaths that occur from people parachuting out of airplanes, skiing down steep mountains, and engaging in other dangerous but perfectly legal activities.

There is one “risky” activity, however, that the federal government has vehemently opposed and specifically outlawed. If diagnosed with a terminal disease, you may not “risk” trying a therapy that is not approved by the FDA. Even if there is a 100% certainty that you will die of a fatal illness, it is illegal for you to “risk” using a new therapy that the FDA has not approved. The FDA’s longstanding position is that it must “protect” terminally ill people from unproven medical treatments, whether the dying person desires such protection or not....READ ON>>>>