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Against Euthanasia

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Hypocritic Oath

Hippocrates, though a pagan sounds remarkably like the ancient christians who uniformly condemned all forms of taking innocent life. The role of medicine was only ever to mend, to do good, not to harm. We mustn't forget one of the best kept secrets of history is that churches were the principal source of health care in society from the three hundreds a d when they first invented the public hospital. And this remains one key argument against euthanasia. Euthanasia introduces a new and foreign idea into medicine, medicine not as mending, but as ending.

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