I once heard this story a long time ago. I can’t remember what I was doing at the time, and it is rare that I can remember a story in such detail, but when I do, I consider it has profound meaning. Wait, now I remember. I was working in a cancer ward and I took my break next to the patient rooms. Oddly enough, the place seemed dreadfully empty, except for one old …showed first 75 words of 2940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2940 total…toujours” (to cure occasionally, to relieve often, to comfort always.) While the physician comforts, the government regulates, and often will forget whose interests they must protect. Society as a whole, or the suffering individual. Euthanasia is not an easy social problem to deal with, and whether or not it is eventually legalized is not the issue. What is important is the question of how society will come to terms with its mortality, and its death.