tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8055983997628191935.post4540144155592898676..comments2016-05-17T10:04:33.500-07:00Comments on The Brass Tack: Surrendering to euthanasiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8055983997628191935.post-50061575313666110782006-12-16T19:33:00.000-08:002006-12-16T19:33:00.000-08:00+ This is an excellent article. It reminds me of a...+ This is an excellent article. It reminds me of a conversation at the end of chapter 19 in Dorothy L. Sayers's detective novel, Strong Poison. The detective hero, Lord Peter Wimsey, has consulted an Anglican clergyman (who in the 1920s still tended to have some moral and theological sense). Wimsey asks why euthanasia is wrong, especially if it is a painless killing and since the person killed has incurable cancer. The clegyman replies: "We can't answer that without knowing the ways of God with the soul. In those last weeks or hours of pain and unconsciousness, the soul may be undergoing some necessary part of its pilgrimage on earth. It isn't our business to cut it short...The wrongness of the thing lies much more in the harm it does the killer than in anything it can do to the person who is killed. Especially, of course, if the killing is to the killer's own advantage..." <br /><br />With the release of Kervorkian from prison this week, it is especially refreshing to read the affirmation of life in this blog. Thanks!Doctor Deaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08669994938092930570noreply@blogger.com