| Show FOR LEGAL KILLING Iowan lowan Introduces Bill Bin for Ending Ending End End- in ing Life When Case Is Hopeless Des Moines Ia la March 10 n 10 lepre Representative e Buckingham late this afternoon afternoon after after- r- r I noon introduced a m measure in the tho licensed house providing for the killing of persons suffering from rom incurable in incurable In- In curable diseases and Infants born Ina in ina ina a a state late of tl deformity r Common sn sense e legislation Is the keynote a of or the argument arg adduced In support of or the measure Instead a d of human beings subjecting themselves s to lo damnation and dl disgrace to lo their relatives relatives rela rela- tives tI b by lal taking their theil own lives when it is manifest life lire I I is no lon longer er worth living liv ng time the law should provide an nn hon hon- 01 orabie able death see the da day when we have hav such a law In ever every state tule In ht the union said Mr 11 Buckingham today It ma maybe may b bt be in advance of or the tines times a bit but were we're coming conning to it You do as IS much even een now note for IH your yom dumb brutes If a horse or 01 a dog has lost his teeth leeth or broken his leg IcS you OU end his misery miser humanely It should be the practice to chloroform human beings when tied they have reached a n condition where thc they too are a burden to lo themselves and those related to lo them Doctors repeatedly take human life liCe even now note out of or a high sense o of or duty ut but the they dare not make the practice ge general I lest the they be convicted of or murder Paralysis leprosy cancer cancel imbecility man many forms of hideous or repulsive Iel incurable In Incurable In- In curable diseases and the worst kinds kind of or deformity arc are included in the cute cat gory gori orr coming coming- within the provisions lons of or this bill Patient Must Agree lec The measure provides that at least three phY physicians and the county coro corn coroner coroner ner must unanimously agree upon tin till f necessity for fOl the I legal ea I murder therein proposed The patient himself If hobe hu ho hube be an adult and of sound mind must unite In m the tho request as must also hi his n nearest of or kin In the case of or children chil chii- dren the parents or guar guardians lans must agree Ic to the process whereby it H is proposed proposed pro pro- posed to dispose e of or them by the ad administration administration nd- nd ministration of an anaesthetic and antl thereby deprive the time hospitals for fur feeble feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded minded and insane of or man many of or their Inmates |
