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• Title: Two Pioneers of Euthanasia Around 1800 (Essays)
• Author : The Hastings Center Report
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 156 KB

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In his autobiographical "Apologie," the famous French surgeon Ambroise Pare recalled how in 1536, he witnessed a remarkable case of mercy killing. On entering a conquered city, he encountered three fatally wounded soldiers. They were leaning with their backs against the wall of a horse stable, next to four others who were already dead. An old soldier approached Pare and asked him whether there was any hope for the three who were still alive. When Pare indicated there was none, the old soldier, to the surgeon's great dismay, calmly proceeded to cut their throats with a knife. (1) Pare's story is just an anecdote, but it has important implications. It shows that active euthanasia was clearly not beyond imagination in the early modern period. This conclusion is confirmed not only by the famous fictional account of active euthanasia in Thomas More's Utopia, published in 1516, but also by reports of "popular" customs like pulling the legs of hanged but still living criminals or suffocating dying patients with cushions to end their suffering. (2)

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