Euthanasia : and other aspects of life and death / by Harry Roberts.

  • Harry Roberts
Date:
[1936]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Euthanasia : and other aspects of life and death / by Harry Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A BILL TO Legalise under certain conditions the administration of Euthanasia to persons desiring it and who are suffer¬ ing from disease of a fatal and incurable character involving severe pain. TDE it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, ■“■^by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. Subject to the provisions of this Act it shall be Euthanasia lawful for a person to receive, and for a medical practi- to be le8al tioner duly licensed for the purpose under this Act to granted10 administer euthanasia, that is to say, the termination of life by painless means for the purpose of avoiding un¬ necessary suffering, if permission has been granted for that purpose in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 2. The conditions upon which permission may be Conditions granted are as follows :— on which (1) The person desiring to receive euthanasia (in this ma^be'0” Act referred to as the patient) must not be less than granted, twenty-one years of age and must be suffering from a