THE RIGHT TO DIE
Clergymen, doctors and social work- 1 ers spoke in favour of euthanasia—! ‘‘easy death” —at the first public meeting of the Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Society, London, when the following resolution, was carried : “That' in, the interests of humanity it is desiri' able that, voluntary euthanasia should! be legalised, subject to adequate safeguards,. for persons who are suffering Irom- incurable', fatal and painful disease.” Lord Moynihan, the president, in a' brief statement of the society’s case, said: “Our object is to obtain legal recognition of the principle that in any case of fatal —inevitably fatal—in-' curable disease, in which agony reaches, or perhaps oversteps, the bounds of human endurance, that, suffering should be' ended by us, having the right to do this. Such a position is naturally responsible for raising a number of anxious questions. Are we sure that the sufferers cannot be cured? We have, indeed, to be careful in suclr a matter, and -it is essential that evfiry safeguard must ‘be taken.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 January 1936, Page 7
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167THE RIGHT TO DIE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 January 1936, Page 7
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