Jewish life, at least for those who follow ancient traditions, has a
rule book. In fact it has many rule books. They are the Torah, the
Talmud, and numerous writings by the rabbis over the millennia. In those
books are laws governing virtually every circumstance that an individual
may face, as well as situations that are imagined by the rabbis but
were, in all likelihood, never faced by anyone and unlikely ever to
occur. "Mercy Killing and Other Tall Meisehs" contains stories about
real and imagined situations, and how they might play out if they
actually happened. But don't wait for them to occur. Some of them are
too fanciful to ever happen. At least I don't think so.