The first recorded use of the word euthanasia was by Suetonius (60-140 AD), a Roman historian, upon describing the death of Augustus Caesar although it was not strictly euthanasia but rather orthothanasia which is with-holding treatment causing the the patient to die.
In ancient India incurable patients were thrown in the river while in ancient Israel a high dose of frankincense was used. Meanwhile in Mesopotamia, Assyrian physicians forbade the act of euthanasia. In ancient Greece a patient that was suffering from intense pain and had a incurable terminal illness was given poison to drink. Plato said “Mentally and physically ill persons should be left to death, they do not have the right to live”.
This changed as later medical ethics were
In ancient India incurable patients were thrown in the river while in ancient Israel a high dose of frankincense was used. Meanwhile in Mesopotamia, Assyrian physicians forbade the act of euthanasia. In ancient Greece a patient that was suffering from intense pain and had a incurable terminal illness was given poison to drink. Plato said “Mentally and physically ill persons should be left to death, they do not have the right to live”.
This changed as later medical ethics were