Today’s proponents of euthanasia fail to apprehend that the proposal has passed its use-by date. The problem in the practice of medicine that resulted from its increasing power to prolong the life of the intrinsically failed or failing human body has been resolved, and in a manner that incorporates both the traditional ethic that eschews the taking of human life and the contemporary one of autonomy of the individual. Euthanasia, by contrast, fails on both these counts. A friend die…
