sues are being raised by critics of those who staunchly oppose the practice euthanasia by invoking one of the clauses in the Hippocratic Oath regarding sanctity of life. They pointed out that if medical practitioners must follow the Hippocratic Oath, then they must follow it totally, indiscriminating of the provisions stipulated therein, such as the forbidding of the practice of surgery and teaching medical practice fro free. As it is said, he that follows the law, yet breaks one, is a transgressor of the law.
The Nazis considered their act of genocide as a form of euthanasia during the Second World War. The German physicians killed over 90,000 patients in the guise of euthanasia, as they called it, because of the mental and physical inferiority such retardation. The Nazis justification of their so called "euthanasia" which in fact was just a cover up for genocide was that they have this notion that some people were better off dead because of their quality of life is inferior. They gave the similar percep
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