History+of+Euthanasia

About 400 B.C. - The Hippocratic Oath (By the "Father of Medicine' Greek physician Hippocrates) "I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel"

14th through 20th Century English Common Law For over 700 years, the Anglo American common law tradition has punished or otherwise disapproved of both suicide and assisting suicide.

1828 - Earliest American statute explicitly to outlaw euthanasia.

1920 The book "Permitting the Destruction of Life not Worthy of Life" was published. In this book, authors Alfred Hoche, and Karl Binding, argued that patients who ask for "death assistance" should, under very carefully controlled conditions, be able to obtain it from a physician. This book helped support involuntary euthanasia by Nazi Germany.

1935 The Euthanasia Society of England was formed to promote euthanasia.

1939 Nazi Germany In October of 1939 amid the turmoil of the outbreak of war Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled.

1995-2008 Australia, Belgium & The Netherlands legalizes assisted suicide including the US states: Oregon and Washington. media type="youtube" key="yVS8BtdphNA" width="336" height="280" align="right"

[|Euthanasia] is a kind way of an end to suffering.