the solid-tumor ward of the cancer clinic of the National Institute of

Health in Maryland, a terrible thought occurred to me. Jack had a

melanoma in his belly, a malignant solid tumor that the doctors

guessed was the size of a softball. The doctors planned to remove the

tumor, but they knew Jack would soon die. The cancer had now spread

out of control. Jack, about 28, was in constant pain, and his doctor

had prescribed an intravenous shot, a pain killer, and this would

control the pain for perhaps two hours or a bit more. Then he would

begin to moan, or whimper, very low, as though he didn't want to wake

me. Then he would begin to howl, like a dog. When this happened, he

would ring for a nurse, and ask for the pain-killer. The third night

of his routine, a terrible thought occurred to me. 'If Jack were a

dog, I thought, what would be done to him?' The answer was obvious:

the pound, and the chloroform. No human being with a spark of pity

could let a living thing suffer so, to no good end." (James Rachel's

The experience of Stewart Alsop, a

that are successful will reduce the number of patients wanting to die.

Liberty, expresses his view on individual rights:

with another terminal patient. Although he had not thought much about

control his own life. If an individual chooses to die, then by all

and derived norm. Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, says

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