Thise are some credential
http://www.thecbc.org/redesigned/cbc_bod_cheshire.php


I like the way you clipped poem, let's put it back into it's context:

http://www.ethicsandmedicine.com/17/2/17-2-exitramp.htm

....

Kevorkian and Humphrey claim, 
That aiding suicide is kind. 
It eases economic drain 
And puts the sick outside our mind. 

If suicide is good, they say, 
For present suffering's relief, 
Then why not offer it today 
To those anticipating grief? 

And if a noble benefit 
Is gained by choking respiration 
Then why withhold from those unfit 
To voice their fatal last petition? 

Such killing fast degenerates, 
Despite concern for patients' best, 
Into a plot that terminates 
Without explicit prerequest. 

And exercise of "right to die," 
If done with regularity, 
Would drive the expectation high 
That suicide is one's duty. 

The notion of a right to die 
In reason finds approval nil, 
>From such a harsh judicial lie 
Would obligate doctors to kill. 

Authority once granted makes
The next step that much easier still.
Removal of restrictions takes
Us further down a murderous hill. 

As ethical constraints give way, 
Down go the lowly euthanists. 
Headlong they plunge, their morals stray 
Into a bleak, black, deep abyss � 

Yet they insist � that up the slope 
Of progress marches suicide 
Unleashed.  Through fallacy's false hope 
And pride they claim compassion's side. 

Here, too, the opposite is true;
"Compassion" means "to suffer with," 
And not abandon patients to 
Asphyxiation, harm, or death. 

....



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:29:20 -0500, Larry C. Lyons wrote:
> Its worse than that  He is director of biotech ethics at the Center
> for Bioethics and Human
> Dignity, a group founded in 1994 to recognize the contribution of
> "biblical values" to the bioethical debate.
> 
> Here's an interesting bit of his poetry I found on the Web site Ethics
> & Medicine (www.ethicsandmedicine.com):
> 
> "The notion of a right to die/ In reason finds approval nil,/ From
> such a harsh judicial lie/ Would obligate doctors to kill."
> 
> Not the most objective of diagnosticians.
> 
> larry
>

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