Should Euthanasia Be Forbidden? Or Should It Be Routine?
Command 6 Do Not Murder

Should Euthanasia Be Forbidden? Or Should It Be Routine?

Those of us whose years exceed twice-twenty will remember Doctor Death, Jack Kevorkian, who declared: “Dying is not a crime,” and who constructed the Thanatron, or Death Device, whose button his suicidal patients pressed to inject death-delivering drugs into their veins. After Kevorkian’s medical license was revoked, cutting off his deadly drug supply, he constructed the Mercitron gas mask, which dispensed carbon monoxide that his suicidal patients could use to breathe in their last breaths.[1]

The formerly Doctor Jack Kevorkian assisted in over a hundred suicides between 1990 and 1998. Between 1994 and 1997, he was tried four times for murder, with three acquittals and one mistrial. Finally, in 1998, the charges stuck: he was charged and soon convicted of murder, serving eight years of a ten-to-twenty-five-year sentence. […]

Eugenics Under Jim Crow America and Nazi Germany: Sterilization, Euthanasia, Lynchings, and Holocaust
Civil Rights

Eugenics and Scientific Racism in the Jim Crow Deep South and Nazi Germany

Was there a similar Final Solution in America? True, there were no gas chambers in the Deep South, nor was there a similar system of systematic mass murder, but there were riots such as the Tulsa Riots where the homes, businesses, and churches of thousands of blacks were torched and looted, and many blacks were injured and murdered. In these riots, mostly occurring in many cities during the interwar years, on rare occasions when there were police arrests, they arrested the black victims who fought back. The major difference is that the Nazis murdered far more people much quicker, and their regime lasted only a decade, as opposed to the seventy-year reign of Jim Crow racism in America. […]