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Chapter 6 - Euthanasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2020

By
Stephen Cordner
Edited by
Kim A. Collins  and
Roger W. Byard
Kim A. Collins
Affiliation:
LifePoint Inc, South Carolina
Roger W. Byard
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
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Summary

I will not relinquish old age, if it leaves my better part intact. But, if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys its faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or tottering edifice. If I must suffer without hope or relief, I will depart, not through fear of the pain itself, but because it prevents all for which I would live.

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Geriatric Forensic Medicine and Pathology , pp. 87 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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