Word: euthanasia
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This argument, however, ignores the definition of a doctor. Professor Leon Kass, M.D., of the University of Chicago, notes that euthanasia "would change the meaning of being a physician from being a healer to that of being an annihilator." He reminds us that the role of the physician has been that of a person who benefits "the sick by the activity of healing...
...healing aspect of meidicine has indeed been perverted by misuse of technology, Kass says. But he maintains that it is misleading to argue that euthanasia is a solution to the problems which medical technology has caused...
...with euthanasia, they would become life-destroyers...
ONCE THE DOCTOR'S role changes to that of a life-destroyer, Washington State's Physicians Against 119 say, patients will no longer be able to trust doctors to act in their best interest. Euthanasia may start out as a benevolent impulse, but it soon becomes a calculating and inhuman procedure...
Initiative 119 would have provided few safeguards against doctors killing patients who were depressed, mentally ill or completely incapable of deciding whether to allow their doctor to kill them. Although it states that only the mentally competent will be allowed to choose euthanasia, no procedure for determination of mental competency is set by the initiative. Nor could doctors involved in euthanasia cases be sued by family members for wrongful death...