The idea of physician-assisted suicide is a direct and potentially lethal blow to the whole self-understanding of the medical profession. It all of a sudden finds itself in the position not of healing, but of killing. I think a lot of doctors who have reflected upon this philosophically recognize that it is a truly radical assault upon the very self-understanding of Western medicine.
Quotes about self-understanding (2 Quotes)
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.