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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]
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]
A recent review studied surveys, interviews, and death certificates from 1947-2016 to gain insight into physician opinions on both physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. [17] In the U.S., less than 20% of physicians reported any patients asking for assistance with euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide; 5% or fewer reported agreeing to ...
Roswell Gilbert served five years in prison before being granted clemency in 1990 by Florida Governor Bob Martinez. He died in September 1994 and his New York Times obituary reported him as saying he came to regret killing his wife. [3] Gilbert was played by actor Robert Young in the 1987 television movie Mercy Or Murder.
Apparent mercy killing by his friend David Coughlin was killed in 1999 in the desert of southern New Mexico , in the United States , after he and Raffi Kodikian got lost while hiking. Kodikian later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder , saying that it had been a mercy killing , and served 16 months. [ 1 ]
Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [2]
Donald Harvey was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 15, 1952, [2] the oldest of three children born to Ray and Goldie Harvey. [3] He was raised in the tiny Appalachian town of Booneville, Kentucky, [2] [4] where his parents were struggling tobacco farmers and members of the local Baptist church. [5]
Aktion T4 (German, pronounced [akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ]) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia which targeted people with disabilities in Nazi Germany.The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings. [4]