Involuntary euthanasia

Felix Adler, a prominent educator and scholar, issued the first authoritative call in 1891 for the provision of lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who requested to die.

In 1900, W. Duncan McKim, a New York physician and author published a book titled Heredity and Human Progress.

ESA’s first president was Charles Potter, an ex-Baptist minister who advocated for coercive eugenic sterilization and involuntary euthanasia.

[5] Adolf Hitler enacted the Aktion T4 program in October 1939 to murder "incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people".

[6] The research undertaken by the Nazis on the victims was used as a prototype for extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka later on in the war.