Euthanasia Essay: Assisted Suicide and Killing Cripples :: Euthanasia Physician Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide and Killing Cripples   This desire to get liberate of mentally and physically different people runs like a pull verboten through human history. The Alaskan Inuits killed impaired kids at birth, as did the Masai of Africa and the Woggeo of current Guinea. Greeks in the fourth century BC used to expose (leave out in the weather to die) their disabled infants.   Chinas rulers are soon to impose laws to persevere the prevalence of abnormal birth. This is not about stopping the birth of capable people capable of performing massacres in Tiananmen Square. No, apparently that is quite OK. By abnormal, they mean disabled people. China, says the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, now has 10 million disabled people who could have been prevented through better controls.   The tidings doesnt help much either. In Leviticus 2118 for example, some 12 impairments - from restricted growth to ruptured testicles, are listed as being unacceptable to theology whilst in 2 Samuel 58 He orders that those who are slur and lame shall not come into the home. Darwins theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest gave these antiquated attitudes a new lease on life. In the capitalist hobo camp of Victorian England, social Darwinism and eugenics were soon invented to scientifically prove that, if the weakest went to the wall, such was the fatal price of progress. Why b opposite to change society for the better when you had a scientifically legitimate way of getting rid of those who couldnt keep up, who cut back by the wayside?   In 1907 Indiana was the first of 30 American states to legalize the sterilisation of a variety of disabled people and other undesirables, and similar laws were passed in Germany (1933-4), Canada (1928), Denmark and Sweden (1929), Finland (1930) and Iceland (1930). It was of course in Germany that the lust for our blood was interpreted to its logical conclusion. Under the National Socialist Party, the 1933 Law on the bar of Congenitally Impaired Progeny and the 1935 Marriage Health Law legalized involuntary sterilization and required doctors to report known disabled people to the Sterilization Courts.   further it was Hitler who really set the ball rolling to sweep us get rid of the face of the earth. On September 1, 1939, he issued a directive self-aggrandizing authority to certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who, according to human judgement, are incurable can, upon a most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a forbearance death.