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Show ,?fittES HEKTEi POK - CiiOElLESS SUFFERERS IP THIS BILL PASSES COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 24. Painlea death for palnracked sufferers who hav no chance for recovery and who . 1 derire to live no longer will be poasl-S. poasl-S. ble if the bill in the General Assembly -' of Ohio is paased. . If the proposed measure becomes a law persons suffering- from incurable diseases or from injuries from which there is no hope of recoyery may be legally chloroformed to death or killed in any other painless way which physicians phy-sicians may design. The measure was introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Hunt of Cincinnati at the request of Miss Anna Hall, who has for years been a student of the subject. Her interest was aroused by the illness ill-ness preceding the death of her mother from cancer of the liver. Miss Hall sat in the gallery of the House and witnessed the voting down of a motion to reject her bill. The vote was 78 to 22. Miss Hall wept when she saw that her measure was to be received and sent to committee. Miss Hall is a woman of wealth and is & member of a highly respectable Cincinnati family. Her father, who ( was an Arctic explorer, died a few years ago. Under the provisions of the bill a person per-son of sound mind who is sick unto death and who is suffering unbearable agony can ask a physician to administer adminis-ter an anesthetic until the patient becomes be-comes unconscious and dies. The physician phy-sician must consult with three other physicians before administering the drug and also must admonish the patient pa-tient that certain death is to follow. The physician after death ensues must notify the Coroner of all the facts of the death in signed statements. |