Euthanasia is a word of Greek origin derived from eu 'well' + thanatos 'death' meaning a well death. REF etymology dictionary. Through history it has been described as a glorious, well, painless and peaceful death. The word euthanasia has been defined with some consistently since the 1700th century as to provide an easy, painless, happy death, and to alleviate the 'physical sufferings associated with dying. The Roman historian Suetonius in The Lives of the Caesars was the first to use the word with meaning directly related to a purposeful death to avoid pain. (ref book page 23) The English scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon has been credited as the first to address the issue of euthanasia as a definition. In his work euthanasia medica
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(ref odyssey volume11 and paper 1 page 7) The Spartans documented rituals of forced killings for the better good of society or in order to create a more superior race. Aeschylus wrote of ending life to avoid suffering in both his tragedies Prometheus bound and Agamemnon.(ref paper 2) Not only documented in plays it was and active topic of debate and documented in the written works by several Greek philosophers including Plato and Hippocrates. Plato discussing the concept of euthanasia in Republic and his opinions against the concept of ending ones life in Laws IX. Ref Book online. Further documentation during the Roman Empire by orator Pliny the younger and by the roman historian Suetonius. (Ref book 7). Euthanasia can be found in the scriptures of the Latin Christendom ?No man has authority over the day of death (Ecclesiastes 8:8), Clement of Alexandria challenged monks on the sin of willful Martyrdom and Saint Augustine derived from the gospels that euthanasia was a sin against god. It is also found in the scriptures of Judaism and Islam from its origins to current. During the Humanist period it was documented extensively in John Bunyan?s Pilgrim?s Progress, John Donne?s Biathanatos, and had a resurgent in poetry, plays through many artist including the English poet William Shakespeare.( ref book 24) Through the modern area
(ref odyssey volume11 and paper 1 page 7) The Spartans documented rituals of forced killings for the better good of society or in order to create a more superior race. Aeschylus wrote of ending life to avoid suffering in both his tragedies Prometheus bound and Agamemnon.(ref paper 2) Not only documented in plays it was and active topic of debate and documented in the written works by several Greek philosophers including Plato and Hippocrates. Plato discussing the concept of euthanasia in Republic and his opinions against the concept of ending ones life in Laws IX. Ref Book online. Further documentation during the Roman Empire by orator Pliny the younger and by the roman historian Suetonius. (Ref book 7). Euthanasia can be found in the scriptures of the Latin Christendom ?No man has authority over the day of death (Ecclesiastes 8:8), Clement of Alexandria challenged monks on the sin of willful Martyrdom and Saint Augustine derived from the gospels that euthanasia was a sin against god. It is also found in the scriptures of Judaism and Islam from its origins to current. During the Humanist period it was documented extensively in John Bunyan?s Pilgrim?s Progress, John Donne?s Biathanatos, and had a resurgent in poetry, plays through many artist including the English poet William Shakespeare.( ref book 24) Through the modern area