Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

bioethics, Culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Medicine, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, philosophy, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic
The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Source
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Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

agnostics, atheists, Culture & Ethics, disabilities, Edward Tylor, Ernst Haeckel, Essays of the Birmingham Speculative Club, eugenics, euthanasia, Evolution, F. H. Bradley, Fortnightly Review, Francis Galton, Germany, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Ian Dowbiggin, illnesses, International Journal of Ethics, Judeo-Christian tradition, Lionel Tollemache, Natural History of Creation, Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, Nick Kemp, Punishment, self-murder, self-redemption, The Cure for Incurables, The Wonders of Life, usefulness, World War I
One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Source
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