Euthanasia

“ . . . the senselessness [literally] of dying led both to the scientific assertion that dying could not be painful and to the technological call that it should not be painful. . . . The use of anesthetics such as chloroform was designed to mechanically reproduce this ideal of natural death in which pain is no longer necessary, and therefore no longer bearable. Pain became senseless precisely because the only sense that it had was given to it by the medical machinery aimed at annihilating it” (Lavi, 73-74).