...Worshipped, except the currency. Swear not at all; for, for they curse Thine enemy is none the worse. At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the...but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive. Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's...

...passive euthanasia — a concept best described by nineteenth-century poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who wrote, "Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive / Officiously to keep alive." Many doctors admit to quietly practicing passive euthanasia for years, often by ordering the withdrawal...

...Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend: Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill; but needst...

...Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all; for for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend: Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill; but needst...

...Frequently they answer it by a pious reference to the nineteenth-century poet, Arthur Clough, who wrote: Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive. Unfortunately for those who appeal to Clough's immortal lines as an authoritative ethical pronouncement,...

...letting die. They are apt to quote with approval Arthur Hugh Clough's famous 'modern commandment': Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive. Most of them, I suspect, are unaware that this was meant satirically. (Another line runs: Thou shalt...

...have a strict obligation not to kill but a duty of some lesser kind to save life. AH Clough's dictum "Thou shalt not kill but need'st not strive officiously to keep alive" expresses bluntly this point of view. The dying Y and Z may be excused for not being much impressed...

...Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all; for for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend: Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: 10 Thou shalt not kill; but needst...

...deliberately to kill a patient even if they are not expected to recover. One argument goes as follows: Thou shalt not kill, but needs't not strive officiously to keep alive' (Arthur Hugh Clough). In other words, although killing a patient is morally unacceptable, if a person...

...advances are creating additional new dilemmas. When the English poet Arthur Hugh Clough wrote of doctors, Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive officiously to keep alive', he meant it as a sneer. But he was writing in the nineteenth century, well before the development of...