Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — WOULD KILL TO END PAIN. [ARTICLE]

WOULD KILL TO END PAIN.

Woman Proposes a I.aw Legalizing the Giving of Annesthetics. Miss Anne S. Hall of Cincinnati startled the convention of the American Humane Association in Philadelphia by proposing the adoption of a resolution favoring legalizing and administration of anaesthetics to persons dying in agony. Miss Hall said thnt there were often incidents in time of railway wrecks when trainmen and passengers were so badly injured that their lives could not possibly be saved. In such cases Miss Hall thought it ought to be permissible to administer anaesthetics to relieve their sufferings. She also favored the use of anaesthetics when persons were dying of incurable diseases iu which they suffered agony. Iu the discussion one woman said that she would not hesitate to shoot a person who might be dying in agony iu a railroad wreck. The resolution was ruled out.