Don't Cave: Physician-Assisted Suicide Unethical The World Medical Association should uphold its ethics code and not succumb to politics

Don't Cave: Physician-Assisted Suicide Unethical

The World Medical Association should uphold its 

ethics code and not succumb to politics

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E) has been a source

 of discussion for millennia, as evidenced by its explicit mention in the 

Hippocratic Oath from the fifth to third century B.C., where Hippocrates 

includes it among the list of things physicians must never participate in.

 In the aftermath of the horrors of the 20th century, where thousands of 

people were euthanized without their consent in World War II, there was

 an even stronger swing of the pendulum against any form of PAS-E.