tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post2061447442303507199..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: French society will be stepping off a moral precipice should it decide to starve Lambert to death.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-72273131900474868462019-05-28T20:10:11.794-04:002019-05-28T20:10:11.794-04:00I have taken this from the online Wikipedia defini...I have taken this from the online Wikipedia definition of euthanasia.....<br /><br />Nazi Euthanasia Program<br />Main article: Action T4<br /><br />Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, where over 18,000 people were killed.<br />A 24 July 1939 killing of a severely disabled infant in Nazi Germany was described in a BBC "Genocide Under the Nazis Timeline" as the first "state-sponsored euthanasia".[47] Parties that consented to the killing included Hitler's office, the parents, and the Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration of Serious and Congenitally Based Illnesses.[47] 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".[48] While Kretchmar's killing received parental consent, most of the 5,000 to 8,000 children killed afterwards were forcibly taken from their parents.[47][48]<br /><br />The "euthanasia campaign" of mass murder gathered momentum on 14 January 1940 when the "handicapped" were killed with gas vans and killing centres, eventually leading to the deaths of 70,000 adult Germans.[49] Professor Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors and a leading authority on the T4 program, contrasts this program with what he considers to be a genuine euthanasia. He explains that the Nazi version of "euthanasia" was based on the work of Adolf Jost, who published The Right to Death (Das Recht auf den Tod) in 1895. Lifton writes:<br /><br />Jost argued that control over the death of the individual must ultimately belong to the social organism, the state. This concept is in direct opposition to the Anglo-American concept of euthanasia, which emphasizes the individual's 'right to die' or 'right to death' or 'right to his or her own death,' as the ultimate human claim. In contrast, Jost was pointing to the state's right to kill. ... Ultimately the argument was biological: 'The rights to death [are] the key to the fitness of life.' The state must own death—must kill—in order to keep the social organism alive and healthy.[50]<br /><br />In modern terms, the use of "euthanasia" in the context of Action T4 is seen to be a euphemism to disguise a program of genocide, in which people were killed on the grounds of "disabilities, religious beliefs, and discordant individual values".[51] Compared to the discussions of euthanasia that emerged post-war, the Nazi program may have been worded in terms that appear similar to the modern use of "euthanasia", but there was no "mercy" and the patients were not necessarily terminally ill.[51] Despite these differences, historian and euthanasia opponent Ian Dowbiggin writes that "the origins of Nazi euthanasia, like those of the American euthanasia movement, predate the Third Reich and were intertwined with the history of eugenics and Social Darwinism, and with efforts to discredit traditional morality and ethics."[42]:65Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06977181356069571020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-57318597768719169692019-05-28T18:32:35.634-04:002019-05-28T18:32:35.634-04:00I have been speaking out against this sort of thin...I have been speaking out against this sort of thing since 1993, when Dr. Arnie Aberman, the Dean of U of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, started pushing for the amalgamation of Toronto's hospitals (so that they could then push two-tier privatization of hospitals where the wealthy would be seen immediately, and the restrof the public would have to wait; and for an 'aggressive' organ donation program) so as to make medicine more profitable for the physicians themselves. <br /><br />Do not think physicians are altruist until you have proof. Some are simply heartless profiteers.Shuckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092764038590348776noreply@blogger.com