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"Having early on expressed support for Nazi medical euthanasia programs ("it would not be fair if the German physician thought that he need not make a responsible contribution to a politics of necessary extermination"),46 Weizsacker was, by the late 1930s, contributing a regular monthly column on psychosomatic matters to a journal of naturopathic medicine called Hippokrates." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Catholic doctrine forbids euthanasia but also requires obedience to the government. At this time, many women in slave labor who had been raped and become pregnant were brought in and forced to have abortions. This too put the nuns in a quandary. By mid-August 1941, euthanasia had become decentralized in various hospitals throughout Germany and the occupied lands of Austria, Poland and the Sudetenland.These widespread medical murders could not have taken place without the full cooperation of people in the medical profession throughout Germany and elsewhere." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"More investigates old enemies, the "Director of the Quality-of-Life Division of the Federal euthanasia Program" and the head of the computer division of the nuclear plant (both of whom were involved in sending him to prison), and discovers they have enacted a brilliant bit of social engineering for the betterment of the populace. They have been putting "Heavy Sodium" in the drinking water to numb out the population and make it, supposedly, happy and content. Dr." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"As Germany geared up for war, more hard-nosed, "mechanistic" medical leaders within the party and the SS—men with a range of practical technologies and concerns (racial screening, sterilization, military medical research, and ultimately methods of mass "euthanasia")—increasingly came to prevail over the "holists." It is true that, by the last years of the war, German psychiatrists were again confronting large numbers of soldiers suffering from the paralyses, shaking, and other physical symptoms of battle trauma." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Despite these dangets, Richardson (also an early animal rights advocate) was a great promoter of the use of carbon disulfide for the painless euthanasia of unwanted pets.37 Carbon disulfide was recognized as an anesthetic agent and was even used briefly in clinical practice. An 1859 phatma-copoeia cautioned, "This fluid is extremely volatile, and hence has been suggested as an anesthetic agent. But thus far, experiments with it have not shown any superiority over other and safer liquids."38 Carbon disulfide was used for still other therapeutic purposes, as the same pharmacopoeia advises." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Why are euthanasia doctors in jail while "Dr. Oncologist" continues to harm and kill women by the hundreds of thousands every single year in the United States and around the world? We need to be asking this question. The breast cancer industry, as it operates today, preys on vulnerable women, victimizing them, poisoning them and exploiting their bodies to generate profits." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"By 1939, as military activity expanded, German health administrators set up a centralized system of what was called euthanasia. They began to kill babies with major defects and moved quickly to others, including mentally ill persons and military veterans who had been disabled by fighting in the First World War. By the summer of 1941, about 100,000 people from various industrialized nations had been murdered in Germany and its occupied territories. This effort to end the lives of defectives was drastically curtailed because of uproar from the families of war veterans." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "At this time, war casualties on the eastern front were mounting, and it would not have been good for morale if soldiers at the front thought that receiving serious injuries would put them in line to be killed back home through state-ordered euthanasia. Nevertheless, throughout the country hospital patients continued to be killed by German physicians and nurses as part of this overall scheme to rid the population of the ill. The state killing machine did not always run smoothly." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"I apply this ethic to such issues as equality (both between humans, and between humans and non-human animals), abortion, euthanasia and infanticide, the obligations of the wealthy to those who are living in poverty, the refugee question, our interactions with non-human beings and ecological systems, and obedience to the law. A non-speciesist and con-sequentialist approach to these issues leads to striking conclusions. It offers a clear-cut account of why abortion is ethically justifiable, and an equally clear condemnation of our failure to share our wealth with people who are in desperate need." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"By mid-August 1941, euthanasia had become decentralized in various hospitals throughout Germany and the occupied lands of Austria, Poland and the Sudetenland.These widespread medical murders could not have taken place without the full cooperation of people in the medical profession throughout Germany and elsewhere. A story from an old German colleague told to the distinguished diplomatic historian and Holocaust survivor Gerhard Weinberg discloses how extensive the killing program became. "My colleague had a sickly younger brother who had been repeatedly hospitalized for a variety of ills." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, most proponents of euthanasia continue to favor some restrictions on access to euthanasia, either procedural safeguards to assure that the patient who requests euthanasia is competent, or substantive limitations such as restriction of the option to patients who are "terminally ill and in intractable pain." Most proposals would also require physicians to certify that the patient's condition and decision meets the criteria. Few people advocate unrestricted access by any citizen to a quick and painless death." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.)

"What if someday society legalizes euthanasia but experiences a dearth of euthanasia providers? "What would we do about physicians who consider physician-assisted euthanasia to be immoral?"9 At a meeting of our hospital's medical executive committee, the nurse in charge of implementing the Patient Self-Determination Act mentioned that in the past, physicians with objections to living wills could simply recommend that the family find another doctor." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.) "Rather, euthanasia is supposed to protect the patient from fates worth than death: pain, indignity, and a sense of being a burden. But do the promoters tell the whole story? Euthanasia is supposed to be purely voluntary on the part of the patient. It is unlikely that people would vote for it otherwise. However, experience in the Netherlands suggests that it won't stay that way. Between 5,000 and 10,000' people are euthanized in Holland each year, of the 128,000 persons who die. The ratio of involuntary to voluntary euthanasia is about 2." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.) "For perspective, about 5,000 children were killed in the Nazi euthanasia program.5 Society might not be ready for involuntary euthanasia. But the situation can change. Ten years ago, society wasn't ready to consider euthanasia at all. Evolving Beyond Hippocrates Readiness changes with societal mores, and also with perceived needs. Thirty years ago, society was not ready to legalize abortion on demand. Twenty years ago, society may have been ready for abortion on demand but was not ready to compel physicians to perform the procedure. But now a shortage of providers is threatened." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

"Pesticides, insecticides, hormones, steroids, euthanasia drugs, and a host of other toxic compounds] enter the rendering process via poisoned livestock, and fish oil laced with bootleg DDT and other organophosphates that have accumulated in the bodies of West Coast mackerel and tuna ... Skyrocketing labor costs are one of the economic factors forcing the corporate flesh-peddlers to cheat. It is far too costly for plant personnel to cut off flea collars or unwrap, spoiled T-bone steaks." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Singer likes it that way and wants to expand the power of the therapeutic state: "If acts of euthanasia could only be carried out by a member of the medical profession, with the concurrence of a second doctor, it is not likely that the propensity to kill would spread unchecked throughout the community.m* Three of Singer's grandparents died in the Holocaust. Nazi medical killing was carried out by members of the medical profession, with the concurrence of many more than two doctors approving it. Death control or ending one's own life because that is what one wants is a personal matter." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"A fourth problem faced by euthanasia advocates was the parents' dread of their neighbors' opinions. The fifth was the parents' "instinct and love," which leads them to resist the idea that their child should be killed. But the writers added a twist: Truly devoted parents could show their devotion more by allowing their child's "merciful passage from life" than by "insisting that a crippled vegetative existence be continued at all costs...." The sixth factor was people's general tendency to reject "any new drastic procedure." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"In "Euthanasia of Horses," an information sheet published by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health and Food, it is very clear that proper disposal of a euthanized carcass is imperative. It warns: "After barbiturate overdoses, the carcass of the horse will be unfit for human or animal consumption. ... Keep in mind that house pets and wildlife that ingest portions of the barbiturate-injected carcass can be poisoned." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Grassie also noted, "A euthanasia solution such as pentobarbital obviously cannot have a withdrawal time and its mechanism of action results in a tissue residue so it could not be used to euthanize animals intended for human or animal food."16 What I have concluded is that the FDA/CVM under its regulations does not allow animals injected with sodium pentobarbital to be used in pet food product. At the same time, the FDA also confirmed after the testing conducted by the FDA/CVM that sodium pentobarbital indeed is in the thirty pet foods they tested." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Summoned in 1935 by Victor Brack, department head of Operation T-4 (for euthanasia of the mentally ill, the chronically ill, Jews, and so-called asocials, to which more than 50,000 citizens of the Third Reich fell victim prior to 1941) to participate in the euthanasia program as a doctor, Schumann accepted after a short period of reflection. In January 1940 he became director of the euthanasia Institute of Grafeneck in Wiirttemberg, where people were killed by engine exhaust (carbon monoxide). In the summer of 1940 he became director of the Sonnenstein Institute near Pirma." - Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 (Get the book.)

"Grassie clarified that when sodium pentobarbital was approved in 1980 it was approved for euthanasia in dogs. Therefore, the FDA believes that at the time of approval the phrase, "Do not use in animals intended for food," applied to non-human food use of these animals since dogs were not considered food animals."15 Grassie also explained that the Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act (AMDUCA) has allowed extra label use (meaning it can be used on other animals) of products provided they do not result in a tissue residue." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "The AVMA report also states, "Carbon dioxide is the only chemical currently used in euthanasia of food animals that does not lead to tissue residues."3 Sodium pentobarbital is listed by the AVMA as a noninhalant pharmaceutical chemical agent, which means it is a chemical agent that leaves a residue in the euthanized animal. Therefore, sodium pentobarbital would not be used to euthanize animals intended for food." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Kennedy and Kanner were followed by an anonymous editorial leaning towards Kennedy's position in favor of killing, whose authors called upon psychiatrists to focus their attention on the "morbid" attachment of parents opposed to the "disposal by euthanasia of their idiot offspring." 1. Lifton, 1986; Miiller-Hill, 1998a. Chapter 9 surveys a large body of literature cited in support of the equal environment assumption (EEA) of the twin method." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"He wrote, "Should life become unbearable for these incurables, the magistrates and priests do not hesitate to prescribe euthanasia. . . . When the sick have been persuaded of this, they end their lives willingly either by starvation or drugs."14 The practice of routinely referring to the ostensible beneficiary of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as a "patient," albeit seemingly harmless, prejudges the act as medical and legitimizes it as beneficial ("therapeutic"). To be sure, a person dying of a terminal illness is, ipso facto, considered a patient." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "The following remarks illustrate Singer's ambivalence about personal autonomy: "Do these arguments for voluntary euthanasia perhaps give too much weight to individual freedom and autonomy? After all, we do not allow people free choice on matters like, for instance, the taking of heroin. This is a restriction of freedom but, in the view of many, one that can be justified on paternalistic grounds. If preventing people from becoming heroin addicts is justifiable paternalism, why isn't preventing people from having themselves killed?"8 Why, indeed?" - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Due to the post World War II revelations of Nazi atrocities, "euthanasia" ceased to be debated in US academic journals. However, today we are witnessing the reestablishment, albeit on the basis of false ideas derived from misinterpreted and biased research, of the idea that psychological trait differences and psychopathology are largely determined by the genes. Whether this leads to the third stage, as it did in Germany, the United States, and several Scandinavian countries, or to the final stage, as it did in Germany and could have done in the US, remains to be seen." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"In October 1939, Hitler issues an order concerning the use of "euthanasia" in cases of incurable disease. The order is backdated to September 1, 1939. This operation is marked with the code name T4. The mentally ill selected for euthanasia For the first time 16 so-called "reeducation" prisoners are sent to Auschwitz by the Kattowitz Gestapo. They are given consecutive Nos. 18160-18175. In the camp documents their numbers begin with "Erz" (Erziehung, or education) or "EH" (Erziehungshafling). On the camp clothing, the number starts with the letter E." - Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 (Get the book.) "In January 1940 he became director of the euthanasia Institute of Grafeneck in Wiirttemberg, where people were killed by engine exhaust (carbon monoxide). In the summer of 1940 he became director of the Sonnenstein Institute near Pirma. As a member of Secret Operation 14f-13, Schumann belonged to a committee of doctors who selected prisoners in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbiirg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, and Niederhangen who were especially weak and incapable of working and "transmitted" them to death by gas in the euthanasia institutes." - Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 (Get the book.)

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