The Finality of Death vs. the Pursuit of Scientific Advancement

They say, there is glory

They say there is glory in death

But who really remembers the fallen?

And what sort of methods

What of the means to achieve

Self inflicted, or under the blade, experiments of torture

But he appeared as a doctor

And he's taken an oath

To revive to renew to repair

He gave him no struggle

Till he produced the scalpel

And proceeded no further prepared than that

They say, there is justice

And after all these men took an oath

So how did he find himself strapped to a table

Unprepared for the surgical probe

What kind of results did he seek

When he removed a lung just to see

How the subject would cope with the surgical practice

How quickly his health would deplete

Cutting deep into his chest

Analysing the potential for cardiac arrest

Surgery sans anesthesia to see how a man

Would deal with the pain

You'll wish you died in the field

Repeat the mantra

They say, there is glory

They say there is glory in death

But is it any more valid if you die under sufferance

Or under extreme duress

Would you say there's an ounce more esteem

For a death on the battlefield

As opposed to that suffered by a prisoner of war

His enemies' captive

Under the blade the experimental doctor's hand