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Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became the first country since the end of Nazi Germany to decriminalize euthanasia for infants with hopeless prognosis and intractable pain. [ 1 ]
Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 – June 18, 1919) was an American physician and the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.Haiselden gained notoriety in 1915, when he refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim. Nazi Germany perpetrated various crimes against humanity and war crimes against children, including the killing of children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with Nazi ideological views, either as part of their idea of racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security.
Child euthanasia (German: Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organized killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and young people up to 16 years old during the Nazi era in over 30 so-called "special children's wards".
In August 1988, Rudy's 6-month-old son Samuel had accidentally swallowed a balloon at a birthday party, damaging his brain. Despite Rudy's attempt to resuscitate him and then carrying him to a fire station, [2] Samuel came to be in a persistent vegetative state, and was only kept alive via a respirator. [3]
Articles about the death of a specific child or children should be in Category: ... Child euthanasia; List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates; D.
Articles relating to euthanasia, the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
The Dutch euthanasia laws require people to ask for euthanasia themselves (voluntary euthanasia), and it is legal for people of 12 years and older. In the Netherlands, euthanasia remains technically illegal for patients under the age of 12. The Groningen Protocol does not give physicians unassailable legal protection.