From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 22:56:22 MST
A gaggle of medical ethicists had a conference in Philadelphia last week. It was about
the need for death. Apparently all these people are smart enough to dress and feed
themselves without help and some have even learned to read and write. They learned how
to write doctoral dissertations and how receive government grants. It made them more
ethical. I guess that's how they became so much more moral than you or me.
Here are a few of the things these wise sages had to say:
"We can't ban this [longer life] research but we can make it socially despicable."
" The finitude of human life is a blessing whether he knows it or not."
"To delay death is to delay union with God."
"[immortality is] a pagan and sub Christian quest."
"To argue that human life is better without death is to argue human life would
be better without being human."
The really strange thing is that I read about this in the Science section of the
New York Times, not the religion section or the comics. I said it before I'll say
it again, medical ethicists are the lowest form of human life.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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