French MPs approve assisted dying law with strict rules after years of argument

New York, April 8.—At a symposium on euthanasia in the Medical Review of Reviews no less an authority than Mr. Roswell Park, of Buffalo, one of the surgeons who attended the bedside of the dying President McKinley, favors the affirmative. He not only speaks of euthanasia as applied altruism, but says that he has practiced it, and advocated a standing jury of physicians and lawyers to determine when the pleadings for death of patients in the terminal stages of life and suffering the "tortures of the damned" should be acceded to. "Euthanasia is the humane in the highest degree," writes Dr. Park, but it is hedged about by one moral difficulty, namely, the question of wise and judicious discretion as to its application. "My own preference would be for a committee of two practitioners of medicine and one of law appointed in some authoritative way to decide when it should be applied."