Word: euthanasias
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...George Bernard Shaw, 82, was made a vice president of London's Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society. Cracked he: ". . . There is not the slightest hope for humankind that I shall practice euthanasia on myself...
Oddly, New York psychiatrists promptly condemned Greenfield, called him a murderer who had simply grown tired of caring for his imbecile son. Toward euthanasia, the medical profession is inclined to be kinder. Laymen were sympathetic, and even District Attorney Samuel John Foley, who will ask a Bronx grand jury for an indictment this week, admitted that he was reluctant to prosecute such "a sad case...
...mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will set up impartial committees of physicians to examine hopeless invalids, recommend scientific extinction...
...Statistics of the Euthanasia Society...
...England there exists a Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society, which a year ago failed to get the House of Lords to pass a bill making mercy killing legal. Last February one of Dr. Potter's high-placed disciples, John H. Comstock of the Nebraska Legislature, failed to persuade that body to legalize the unorthodox procedure. Last week Dr. Potter promised that Mr. Comstock will try again this term. Other disciples promised to introduce similar bills in the Ohio and New York Legislatures and in Congress. If these bills become law, anyone who can get two disinterested doctors to convince...