Word: euthanasias
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Wiles says his major accomplishment in almosttwo years as Cambridge's lab animals commissionerhas been to implement carbon dioxide asphyxiationas the method of euthanasia for small rodents.Before, Wiles says, many researchers were usinganother, less humane method of killing mice andsmall rats...
Killing and disposing of the animals-researchers call it "sacrificing"--is a grim task. Consider Harvard's "Faculty of arts and Sciences Guidelines for Animal Experimentation Regarding Euthanasia Procedures...
...certain that all animals are dead before disposal...The use of a guillotine to kill rodents is an acceptabletechnique for euthanasia, with somerestrictions...
...insidous cancer that besieged its tissues, sapped its strength, and made necessary a violent euthanasia will never mar the memory of its nobility...
...With euthanasia, more people would die who really wished to go on living, or who could not make the decision to go on living for themselves. With national health care, human beings would become merely burdens on the system when they passed a certain age. (Now, at least, those with the funds to pay for life-prolonging treatment make their own decisions about whether to they pay with their own money--not the government...