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Assessing the Arguments for and against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Part Two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

DAVID C. THOMASMA
DAVID C. THOMASMA
Affiliation:
Medical Humanities Program at Loyola University Chicago Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
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Abstract

In Márquez's Of Love and Other Demons Abrenuncio the physician and the Marquis discuss the outbreak of rabies that is the centerpiece of the book, since the Marquis' daughter has been bitten by a rabid dog. Abrenuncio notes that the poor “had the courage to poison the food of their rabid kin in order to spare them of a ghastly death... People believe that we physicians do not know that such things occur... That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them. What we do instead is... commend them to St. Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.”

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: EUTHANASIA AND PUBLIC POLICY
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 388 - 401
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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