The Fulton County Superior Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, validating the terms of the Humane Euthanasia Act, with an injunction prohibiting the Department from issuing licenses to shelters using gas chambers in violation of the Act.

He served as president of the Euthanasia Society of America ( later renamed the Society for the Right to Die ) from 1974 to 1976.

Although passed as a reaction to the situation in the Northern Territory, the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 made similar amendments with respect to Australia's two other self-governing territories, The Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island, also preventing them from passing a law permitting euthanasia.

The Nazi Doctors was the first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps.

Euthanasia is distinct from animal slaughter and pest control, which are performed for purposes other than an act of mercy, although in some cases the killing procedure is the same.

Propaganda for Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program: " This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60, 000 Reichsmark during his lifetime.

However, the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program ran from September 1939 until August 1941.

Through a direct order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued in November 1940, Stangl became the deputy office manager ( Police Superintendent ) of the T-4 Euthanasia Program at Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, and in late summer 1941 at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre, where mentally and physically disabled people, as well as political prisoners, were sent to be killed.

During the Doctors ' Trial Brack testified from the witness stand that after 1941, when the extermination of Jewish population by Nazis was at full capacity, Heinrich Himmler ordered him to contact physicians involved previously in the Euthanasia Program to find out a way of sterilizing young and strong Jews capable of labour for use in the German war effort.

She was the first chief woman officer at Ravensbrück from 1939-1941 and took an active part in the selection of internees to be gassed during 1941 at the Bernberg Euthanasia Center near Berlin.

Olga, however, was eventually sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to an experimental extermination camp set up at an old psychiatric hospital in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942, where she was gassed ( see: Action T4 ).

He has drawn some anecdotes from The Making of a Surgeon by William Nolen, The Making of a Psychiatrist by David Viscott, The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality by James Rachels and Requiem pour la Vie by Leon Schwartzenberg.

* Religion and Ethics – Euthanasia – many views of euthanasia, for, against, and religious, from the BBC

Euthanasia, " good death " in Greek, is the act or practice of ending the life of an individual who would otherwise experience severe, incurable suffering or disability.

Those who are in the latter days of life must feel they are still ( perhaps, especially ) part of the family of God ./ Euthanasia, assisted dying – both are artificial precipitation of death.

Euthanasia brings about many ethical issues regarding a patient ’ s death.

* Florian P. Thomas, Alana Beres, and Michael I. Shevell " A Cold Wind Coming ": Heinrich Gross and Child Euthanasia in Vienna.

The often intentionally offensive tactics of the Church of Euthanasia have been condemned by many groups, notably Christians.

In 1980, he also wrote the CDF's declaration on Euthanasia, explaining the Church's view on ending life.

The Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 has no effect on the power of an Australian state to pass any law permitting euthanasia and it expressly leaves open the possibility of a territory passing laws regarding the withholding of life support.

The Euthanasia Programme at Am Spiegelgrund clinic, Vienna, where Gross was a leading doctor, was intended by the Nazis to research eugenics and accomplish elimination of those individuals considered by the regime to constitute life unworthy of life.

Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress.

" A Historical Introduction to Jewish Casuistry on Suicide and Euthanasia.

" in Baruch A. Brody, Suicide and Euthanasia: Historical and Contemporary Themes ( Netherlands ).

Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary.

Euthanasia may be classified according to whether a person gives informed consent into three types: voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary.

Euthanasia conducted with the consent of the patient is termed voluntary euthanasia.

Euthanasia conducted where the consent of the patient is unavailable is termed non-voluntary euthanasia.

Euthanasia conducted against the will of the patient is termed involuntary euthanasia.

The 1942 " Euthanasia " Debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Other Unitarians include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Lancelot Ware, founder of Mensa, Sir Adrian Boult, the conductor, and C. Killick Millard, founder of the Euthanasia Society.

However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.

* Euthanasia is part of a person's ' right ' to self-determination.

His counterpart, geneticist Hans Nachtsheim was discredited by his Nazi past while Büchner had openly spoken against the regime's Euthanasia policy.

In 1990, Georgia's " Humane Euthanasia Act " became one of the first laws in the nation to mandate intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital as the prescribed method for euthanizing cats and dogs in Georgia animal shelters.

Wirth developed his own ideas on the basis of the experience he had gained in the " Euthanasia " program and decided to supply the fixed gas chamber with gas produced by the internal-combustion engine of a motorcar.

Later the old gaol became the Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre where the Nazis killed people with mental diseases, including children.

The " Euthanasia Act " legalized euthanasia in Belgium in 2002, but it didn't cover assisted suicide.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalized in the country in April, 2009.

Since 1999, ERGO has hosted the suicide device research group NuTech which meets in various world cities to examine new ways of legal self-deliverance .< ref > Info provided by Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization ( ERGO ) < http :// www. finalexit. org / index. html >.</ ref >

Dying with Dignity Victoria ( formally known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria Inc .) was founded in 1974.