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**joulseenjoync** · 11-25-2011, 12:10 PM

(To) Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates

This about sums up what the practice of medicine should be. There is no point in prolonging life if the patient is suffering from a terminal disease with no hope of cure. All that can be done in such cases is to provide relieve from pain in the body and let nature takes it's course. The aggregates are coming to an end and whether one accepts or not isn't going to change the truth. Prolonging life needlessly would not be in keeping with wisdom.

Mercy killing is wrong as one is under the delusion that there is a "person" to kill. The way the question is asked already assumes that there is a self, so the answer has to be no. It has already fallen from the Middle Way ie. eternalism/nihilism.

11-25-2011, 12:10 PM	#21
joulseenjoync Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	(To) Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates This about sums up what the practice of medicine should be. There is no point in prolonging life if the patient is suffering from a terminal disease with no hope of cure. All that can be done in such cases is to provide relieve from pain in the body and let nature takes it's course. The aggregates are coming to an end and whether one accepts or not isn't going to change the truth. Prolonging life needlessly would not be in keeping with wisdom. Mercy killing is wrong as one is under the delusion that there is a "person" to kill. The way the question is asked already assumes that there is a self, so the answer has to be no. It has already fallen from the Middle Way ie. eternalism/nihilism.
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