Euthanasia: Emancipation or Subjection?

8 months ago
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Does the Hippocratic Oath--taken by medical graduates as they begin their roles as physicians--still matter? While young doctors in various medical schools still take this oath, governments across the Western world are passing legislation that would permit, and in some cases require, a doctor to administer treatment with the intention of ending a life? Such laws allow or force medical staff to expand their services of assisting the sick to recover, to assisting in the killing of a person.

We can dress up this new role for health professionals with all manner of softer phraseology but do we as a society know how this will change our attitudes to care for the chronically ill, the elderly and others faced with severe medical situations?

Additional Resources:

Free booklet—Your Ultimate Destiny https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/booklets/what-is-the-meaning-of-life

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