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Euthanasia - Pro and Con: A False Mercy
Gumpert, Martin | January 28, 1950 issue

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The article discusses the role of Euthanasia or mercy killing. It says that legalizing euthanasia would be a disservice to the medical profession in that it would expand the power and responsibility of physicians, which are already almost unbearably great. The legal conditions proposed consent of the patient or his family and decision by a state commission would create psychological and technical situations beyond human endurance. Moreover, the weapons of medicine for fighting pain and alleviating unbearable suffering have increased beyond any expectation. There is, indeed, no place for unbearable pain in modern medicine. If people die in torment it is because qualified medical or nursing care is unavailable.

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EUTHANASIA; FAMILIES; CARE of people; PHYSICIANS -- Malpractice; MEDICAL laws & legislation; MEDICAL ethics
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