Title: A Brief History of Euthanasia
Headings: A Brief History of Euthanasia
A Brief History of Euthanasia
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Content: Physicians became comforters of the dying, rather than healers. The futility of prolonging a patient’s life became clear to the medical community and sparked the re-acceptance of euthanasia. Englishman William Munk presented euthanasia as ‘a calm and easy death’”. [ 21] Munk thought euthanasia only necessary when there was not proper medical palliative care and viewed it with apprehension. [ 22] In stark contrast with modern medicine, nineteenth century doctors thought of euthanasia in these terms. The rise of Darwinism and secularization, caused men and women to reject the notion of universal morality and view euthanasia as a means of self-preservation. Amidst this climate, utilitarian perspectives flourished and caused people view euthanasia with newfound curiosity. [ 23]
Shortly thereafter, feminism gave rebirth to Hume’s notion that euthanasia was an issue of personal liberty. Social workers argued that the right to euthanasia was as liberating as a woman’s right to vote, divorce, birth control, and property rights. [ 24] The wars and bloodshed in the twentieth century, shook European certainty in traditional religious values.