Paracultural Calendar for Jan 14

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 15.01.2015 04:55, Mark Thibodeau wrote:

> On this day in the year *1938*, a gang of morbid, misanthropic goofs 
> get together in New York and decide to form the *National Society for 
> the Legalization of Euthanasia*. Their stated goals? *1)*To make sure 
> a quick and painless death is available to anyone who wants or needs it.
>
> ***
>

What?! Who decides whether someone who doesn't want to be killed "needs 
it"? Oh, doctors and economists do, yeah, right, that's what I thought ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

 > ... The programme officially ran from September 
1939,^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#cite_note-9> to August 
1941, during which 70,273 people were killed at various extermination 
centres located at psychiatric hospitals in Germany and 
Austria.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#cite_note-Proctor191-1> 
After the official termination of the programme physicians in German and 
Austrian facilities continued many of the practices that had been 
instituted under the program right up until the defeat of Germany in 
1945.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#cite_note-10> 
^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#cite_note-holocaust-history.org-11> 
This "unofficial" continuation of the Action T4 policies led to more 
than 200,000 additional deaths. In addition, technology that was 
developed under Action T4, particularly the use of lethal gas to perform 
mass scale murder, was transferred to the medical division of the Reich 
Interior Ministry, along with transfers of personnel who had 
participated in the development of the 
technology.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#cite_note-12> This 
technology, the personnel and the techniques developed to deceive 
victims were used in the implementation of industrial killings in mobile 
death vans, and in established extermination camps with stationary 
facilities for mass murder ... <


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