As for the pro-lifer/suicide is okay stance, I thought it might be the House writers referencing a common issue with real life pro-lifers, who claim to be pro-life but are more accurately pro-unborn life because they don’t care what happens to the mother and baby after the birth. They want the fetus to be a person, but they don’t want welfare to pay for the fetus when it’s out of the womb.

If she is one of the ‘culture of life/culture of death’ crowd, then you could argue she overdosed right in front of a doctor, in the middle of a hospital; her chances of dying were extremely minimal, especially considering the sedatives she overdosed with. It’s possible she knew this and wanted to be ‘physically’ sick, thinking House would take interest then.

The dialogs were crap. This is just television and House and its writers taking themselves too seriously. And people who might “learn something” from an episode like this, with its sappy and shallow philosophical pontifications are to be pitied just as much as any person who allegedly might be said to have their view of fill-in-the-blank disease informed. It’s TV. Give us a break. Now it’s time to watch two hours of Seinfeld (no learning, no hugging) as an antidote to this pathetic episode.