Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...nurse who had decided to engineer a mercy killing of her sick father. She had put an overdose of narcotics in a hypodermic so that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and kill him. Was Dr. Morgan in favor of euthanasia? Said the syndicate: the strip did plan to present the pros & cons of euthanasia. But the syndicate added comfortingly: Dr. Morgan would not forget his Hippocratic Oath...
...idea for Rex Morgan's current sequence came from a Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering...
Died. Robert Latou Dickinson, 89, gynecologist and sexologist, a founder of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Euthanasia Society of America, pioneer advocate of birth control and mercy killing; in Amherst, Mass...
...defense attorney, white-haired Louis E. Wyman, had fumbled with his thoughts and fumbled with his papers during his summation. Tears were in his eyes as he finished. There had been no murder, he said, and euthanasia was not, therefore, an issue. Rather, as Dr. Sander had testified, 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borroto was already dead when he injected air ("Why I did it, I can't tell") into her wasted...
...Soon the indications for euthanasia would be broadened to include all cases which fell in the group of 'unbeatable' diseases. Children unable to see, speak or hear would eventually be included. I would rather help to support, even at great sacrifice, a thousand invalids than be partner in the demise of one Helen Keller...