Word: euthanasias
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TIME, Nov. 18, reported that 1,500 New York doctors had joined in sponsoring a euthanasia bill. This figure was accurate when TIME went to press, but the day it reached its readers membership on the Physicians' Committee for Legalization of Voluntary Euthanasia had grown...
...guilty? Humanitarians and moralists have argued over such cases as Long's for years.* But in spite of the well-intentioned uproar in favor of euthanasia, no civilized country distinguishes in law between "mercy killing" and murder...
...some recent discussion of euthanasia, see TIME...
...Euthanasia Society of America, which vouches for the story, cites it as an indication that many doctors favor "mercy killing" in extreme cases. Last week the society started a widely backed drive to make euthanasia legal. It announced that 1,500 New York doctors and 54 eminent clergymen (among them: Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloan Coffin, Riverside Church's Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick) had joined in sponsoring a euthanasia bill which they hope to get introduced in the New York State Legislature...
Died. Tony, the late Tom Mix's famed "wonder horse"; of euthanasia; in San Fernando, Calif...