Scared To Death

January, 1995

Maybe it's because I live in southern California, but everyone I know is obsessed with risks to their health. One day, the luncheon topic is radiation in cellular phones; the next, it's salmonella in chicken. The risk need not even be real. All that's necessary is a modicum of uncertainty that lawyers can spin into a class-action suit far more profitable for them than for the plaintiffs.Lawyers feed off the assumption of too many Americans that they have a right never to die. Faced with a life-t...