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yes it should That is why I highly prefer the physician to help end suffering. The butcher me make a rump roast. The individual and the people closest to them should be able to choose. It is loving and unselfish. The oath has been modernized. The current version states, " “Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God…”[1] he is a physician..not a butcher..[2] Above claims might be similar in case there was no other food than the contaminated one. In that case, sure, some people would choose to starve from poison and disease rather than starvation. Maybe that should be legal as well in such extreme cases.

No person would choose contaminated over good food, if both were available. However, if safe food was unavailable, people might opt for unsafe. Medicine is the science and art of healing; preventing and treating of illness. Oath is taken by doctors swearing to practice medicine ethically. "Modernizing" the oath in this manner would contradict the definition of medicine. If medicine cannot help a patient, maybe some other profession should jump in with the euthanasia solution. Ethics of medicine should not be distorted with it. But this claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation. Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are government mandated suffering. Maybe the Hippocratic Oath should be modernized. Doctors have a moral responsibility to keep their patients alive as reflected by the Hippocratic Oath. Terminally ill people should have the right to end their suffering with a quick, dignified, and compassionate death. Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal? [3]Physician assisted suicide.