And help you to live--to live! Who ever heard of such a thing ?" And the Kohen looked at me with the same astonishment which I should evince if a man should ask me to help him to die.
Still, I persisted in my entreaty for his help.
"Such a request," said he, "is revolting; you must be mad.

Such a request outrages all the instincts of humanity.

And even if I could do such violence to my own nature as to help you to such a thing, how do you think I could face my fellow-men, or how could I endure the terrible punishment which would fall upon me ?" "Punishment!" said I."What! would you be punished ?" "Punished!" said the Kohen.

"That, of course, would be inevitable.

I should be esteemed an unnatural monster and the chief of criminals.