If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

She became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program. Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.

She is currently a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Eleanor Clift (born July 7 1940) is a political reporter television pundit and author. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group which Eleanor Clift has compared to "a televised food fight".