Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — Kill the Iacurable. [ARTICLE]

Kill the Iacurable.

Rev. Merle St. O. Wright, pastor of the Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church of New York, in an address before the New York Medical Association, said he was in favor of putting incurable sufferers from disease to death by painless agencies. What is the use of prolonging life when we know that it means nothing but torture for the victim? The minister would have the consent of the patient and his family to the act of ending his life. Drugs could be administered which would not cause pain and the dreamless sleep would follow. The minister thought that a humane death in this way would be advancing civilization and getting away from barbarians.