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Euthanasia and suicide in antiquity: viewpoint of the dramatists and philosophers.

Euthanasia has been a subject of controversy for more than three thousand years.1 The word ‘euthanasia’, which is Greek in origin (EY-ΘANATO∑=good death), appears during the Hellenistic period. Authors in antiquity indirectly talked about ‘willing self-sacrifice’ or ‘intended death’ or ‘death brought about by an action of one's own.’1 Apart from Hippocrates, many philosophers—Pythagoras, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus and others—indirectly dealt with euthanasia. 
 
In the Greek tragedies, which are counted among man's highest achievements, the reader is taught not only about music, dance and spectacles, but also about ethics. 
 
The greatest of the dramatists/tragedians were Aeschylus, who was referred to as ‘the perfect one,’ the humane and popular Sophocles and the eminent Euripides, who all touched upon the ethical aspects of euthanasia in their plays. 
 
Euthanasia continues to be a matter in dispute in modern medicine and questions about its clinical necessity are still being debated in the literature.