It's easy to drag up one case presented in isolation, like Ms Neumann, but I could equally offer you the (still ongoing, after her death) case of Ms Schindler-Schiavo, a brain-damaged young woman who was dehydrated to death against the (religion-based) wishes of her parents. How many little girls are dead because the UK/US public believed in non-existant WMDs in Iraq? And are we disbanding democracy/our parliaments off the back of that one massive error? Where do you stand on DNR orders, made in the absence of the patient's consent? Really! "...practically, "freedom of belief" is a nonsense. You do not have freedom of belief. Try it. Just try it: believe you are an elk. I bet you can't. You believe whatever your mind and senses tell you to believe and you don't have a choice." Au contraire - I can be an elk right up until I decide to gore someone else with my horns (antlers?) - google "otherkin" and see how many people are rubbing along just fine, with beliefs so at variance to the norm they'd make your ears bleed.