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In light of the many fears of rapidly increasing health care costs and finding a sustainable structure to support an aging U.S. The Johns Hopkins University’s Bulletin of the History of Medicine explains, “While Americans openly and vigorously argued the merits of euthanasia at the turn of the twentieth century - a phenomenon that has all too often been overlooked - they did so with minimal reference to individual self-determination or personal autonomy instead, most advocates and opponents of the practice spoke in terms of the collective welfare.” Kevorkian - this case did not spark a national debate, call activists to picket medical practices, or even cause Kempster to hold a public apology.

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However, unlike more recent stories of assisted suicide - such as the infamous 1999 trial Dr. During this year, famous physician and health commissioner of Milwaukee, Walter Kempster, administered a lethal dose of morphine to a woman who was suffering traumatic self-inflicted third degree burns. 1906, a year most remembered for the San Francisco earthquake, also notes the first time in which assisted suicide entered the national spotlight.

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