Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The World's Deadliest Killers
If I asked you what profession in the world would be the most skilled in killing and have the coldness to do it, what would be your answer? Police, the military, hitmen? What would be your reaction if I told you physicians? So knowledgeable about the body, especially their own patients, they know not only how to heal, but also how to kill. Steeled for the messiest accidents, doctors have the calm to sew up even the most severely injured victim.
Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, recognized this when he wrote "The Speckled Band." In it, Sherlock Homes explains to Watson, "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
In the world in which we live today, not only is this a possibility, but something already happening in the United States--the legalized killing of the unborn. But it doesn't end there, Oregon is the first state in which doctors, those supposed to be devoted to the care and healing of their patients, can now legally end a person's life for the simple reason of pain.
Even good doctors are tempted. With the spread of HMOs, already overworked, doctors are faced with losing money with the amount of care many of their patients need. When test results come back negative and a person is still in pain, they would now have another option--just simply ending life.
As Christians, we are called to defend the weak, stand up for those unable to cry out. "Mercy killing," as they call it, is nothing more than murdering those made in God's image. The question is, what will you do about it?
Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, recognized this when he wrote "The Speckled Band." In it, Sherlock Homes explains to Watson, "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
In the world in which we live today, not only is this a possibility, but something already happening in the United States--the legalized killing of the unborn. But it doesn't end there, Oregon is the first state in which doctors, those supposed to be devoted to the care and healing of their patients, can now legally end a person's life for the simple reason of pain.
Even good doctors are tempted. With the spread of HMOs, already overworked, doctors are faced with losing money with the amount of care many of their patients need. When test results come back negative and a person is still in pain, they would now have another option--just simply ending life.
As Christians, we are called to defend the weak, stand up for those unable to cry out. "Mercy killing," as they call it, is nothing more than murdering those made in God's image. The question is, what will you do about it?
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