Euthanasia Essay: Assisted Suicide and Killing Cripples :: Euthanasia Physician Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia/assisted Suicide and Killing Cripples   This desire to get rid of mentally and physically different people runs like a thread through man history. The Alaskan Inuits killed impaired kids at birth, as did the Masai of Africa and the Woggeo of New Guinea. Greeks in the quartern century BC used to expose (leave out in the withstand to die) their modify infants.   Chinas rulers are soon to impose laws to stop the prevalence of anomalous birth. This is non about stopping the birth of able-bodied people open of performing massacres in Tiananmen Square. No, apparently that is quite OK. By abnormal, they mean handicapped people. China, says the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, now has 10 million disabled people who could have been prevented through better controls.   The Bible doesnt help oftentimes either. In Leviticus 2118 for example, some twelve impairments - from restricted gain to ruptured testicles, are listed as being unacceptable to God whilst in 2 Sam uel 58 He orders that those who are blind and lame shall not come into the home. Darwins theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest gave these ancient attitudes a mod lease on life. In the capitalist jungle of Victorian England, accessible Darwinism and eugenics were soon invented to scientifically prove that, if the weakest went to the wall, such was the inevitable price of progress. why bother to change society for the better when you had a scientifically coherent way of getting rid of those who couldnt keep up, who fell by the wayside?   In 1907 Indiana was the first of 30 American states to legalize the sterilisation of a variety of disabled people and other undesirables, and similar laws were passed in Germany (1933-4), Canada (1928), Denmark and Sweden (1929), Finland (1930) and Iceland (1930). It was of course in Germany that the lust for our blood was taken to its logical conclusion. at a lower place the National Socialist Party, the 1933 Law on the Preve ntion of Congenitally Impaired way out and the 1935 Marriage Health Law legalized involuntary sterilization and required doctors to cut across known disabled people to the Sterilization Courts.   But it was Hitler who really ready the ball rolling to sweep us off the face of the earth. On September 1, 1939, he issued a directive giving authority to trustworthy physicians to be designated by name in such a dash that persons who, according to human judgement, are incurable can, upon a most diligent diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a mercy death.