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...merits of each individual situation that physicians are always going to come under fire from some group if they make the issue an open one. Many will candidly admit a vehement opposition to actual mercy killing, but say that they may no longer elect, for instance, to give penicillin to treat the pneumonia of a terminal cancer patient...
...year it was divulged that the State of Alabama had initiated--40 years earlier--a study of syphillis. The predominantly black participants, unaware of the nature of their disease, were offered elaborate free funerals and other appetizing fringe benefits in exchange for their cooperation in the study. Even after penicillin became readily available the researchers of the Tuskegee study withheld the cure from their subjects...
...they would beat an injured prisoner. Later I found out that that was their technique to break you. You're most vulnerable when first captured and injured. I finally wrote something like 'We should seek peace at the peace table.'" His reward was a shot of penicillin...
Such reminiscences are likely to be followed by what Noyes calls "a mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music...
Dumont said that "heroin is a benign drug, it's much safer than penicillin. In terms of death, heroin is not as lethal as suicidal tendencies or alcoholism...