The plight of people who feel that their suffering is unbearable or that their experience of disability is unacceptable to themselves should be a catalyst for South Africans to debate the meaning of compassion, writes University of Pretoria historian of medicine On 20 June 2022, professor of biotechnology Sean Davison was released from three years of enforced silence. He did not serve his time for murder in jail, but was restricted to his home.
That is having: sympathy for the suffering or distress of another, the desire to relieve it, and taking action. Davison's cause had been supported by cleric, human rights activist, and champion of compassion, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.Euthanasia means a good or gentle death and has been discussed by many South Africans for at least a century.
The Hartman trial triggered an open discussion of medical mercy killing in South Africa. Anonymously, many doctors admitted they performed mercy killings. In 1979, renowned heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard endorsed active euthanasia and the apartheid state threatened to ban his book Good Life/Good Death: A Doctor’s Case for Euthanasia and Suicide .
The SALC drew up the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1997 and the End-of-Life Decisions Act 1997 to be debated in Parliament. In so doing, the commissioners trusted the democratic organs of the new South Africa to determine how compassion could be enacted by law. However, the government has yet to initiate such a debate.
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