Euthanasia

Euthanasia (literally "good death" in Ancient Greek) refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner.

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• I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.
  • Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgeon^{[citation needed]}

• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
  • Maurice Maeterlinck, Our Eternity; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift, and to many a favor.
  • Seneca^{[citation needed]}

• A perfect world: Forbid voluntary euthanasia to people in the final stage of incurable illness because life is sacred and untouchable, but touch and desecrate the life of thousands and millions of healthy, capable people by sending them to war, where they will be killed or maimed, to then subject the on purpose produced disabled to the prohibition of applying voluntary euthanasia.
  • Manfred F. Schieder [1]