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Last year he got a committee of doctors, the Physicians of Mercy, to lay down new guidelines, which he scrupulously follows." [26] However, Fieger stated that Kevorkian found it difficult to follow his "exacting guidelines" because of "persecution and prosecution", adding, "[H]e's proposed these guidelines saying this is what ought to be done ...
The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings. [4] The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten , which recruited and paid personnel associated with Aktion T4.
The Telegraph noted that the killing of the disabled infant—whose name was Gerhard Kretschmar, born blind, with missing limbs, subject to convulsions, and reportedly "an idiot"— provided "the rationale for a secret Nazi decree that led to 'mercy killings' of almost 300,000 mentally and physically handicapped people". [49]
Mercy killer: Believes the victims are suffering or beyond help, though this belief may be delusional. Sadistic: Use their position as a way of exerting power and control over helpless victims. Malignant hero: A pattern wherein the subject endangers the victim's life in some way and then proceeds to "save" them.
John David Moor (1947 – 14 October 2000) [1] [2] was a British general practitioner who was prosecuted in 1999 for the euthanasia of a patient. He was found not guilty but admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 people to die. [3]
In 1937, doctor-assisted euthanasia was declared legal in Switzerland as long as the doctor ending the life had nothing to gain. [15] [23] During this same era, US courts tackled cases involving critically ill people who requested physician assistance in dying as well as "mercy killings", such as by parents of their severely disabled children.
The euthanasia killings of mental patients temporarily stopped in August 1941, [2] and the gas chambers were dismantled. [3] Killing the mentally disabled resumed in August 1942 and resulted in 3,000 to 3,500 additional deaths, [3] though now narcotic overdoses were used instead of gassing.
Currently, euthanasia is illegal in Massachusetts. According to Ch. 201D §12 Massachusetts states that "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute, condone, authorize, or approve suicide or mercy killing or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act to end one's own life other than to permit the natural process of dying". [15]