Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reactions. Editors, rejoicing in so controversial a question as Euthanasia (Greek term for "killing in mercy"), sent reporters last week to question the world-prominent on the Corbett verdict. The following names made the following answers...
Last week Germany's Reichstag and Ministry of Justice, bold in their new republicanism, seriously considered legalizing death by professional prescription. Advocates argued that euthanasia has become common in the Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...
...should not be inconsolable if Congress should decree euthanasia for the commission. The writer's demonstrated earning power is in excess of his present official salary. It has come about that the flexible tariff, like one's elbow, appears to flex but one way and that way is upward. Consequently, the flexible tariff is a subject that provokes the flexible laughter of its critics. Why this lopsided situation? . . . The Tariff Commission is like a dentist's office, to which people rush only when they have a pain or an ache...