Euthanasia in the Third Reich: Lessons for Today?J A Emerson Vermaat ‘At this stage I do not feel that I am going to die, but I don’t want to die away later with my body being reduced to a little more than a lump. Please, promise to help me before this moment comes.’ Today, many physicians are familiar with incurably ill patients requesting them to end their lives because of unbearable suffering. In the case of the above quote the request for euthanasia is not made by a desparate twenty-first century patient. One finds it in the Nazi film Ich...
