. The court system did not become involved with the debated issue of euthanasia and PAS until the mid 1800's. The article "History of Euthanasia" explains between 1857 and 1865 a New York Commission led by Dudley Field drafted a criminal code that prohibited "aiding" a suicide, and specifically "furnishing another person with any deadly weapon or poisonous drug knowing that the person intends to use such weapon or drug in taking his own life" (2). Gittleman points out that the public debate over euthanasia led to a pro-euthanasia bill, which was defeated by the Ohio legislature in 1906 (2). However, the debate did not stop here. During the 1940's Urofsky explains the Nazis incorporated eugenics in their plan to rid the world of inferior people. Unfortunately, German doctors put to death people who were mentally retarted, physically handicapped, elderly, or infirm. Over a period, this euthanasia society of Nazi racial members lost public support when Hitler died (25). In the meantime, the advancement of the modern technical medical era came about in the 1950's. Since then physicians have been able to prolong life with machines beyond the bodies own natural ability ton function, sustain itself, and ward off disease (2). Medical technology has advanced profusely in the last decade. If euthanasia and PAS becomes legal then it well be looked upon as the easiest death choice; there will be absolutely no point of raising taxes for insuring appropriate care for the sick, increasing research dollars to develop more effective pain management, struggling to improve practice, protocols, advance medical orders, and long term care systems. Yes, there are limits to how much doctors can do for people in need, but doctors
             must constantly strain against these limits. To do anything else, for example, PAS or euthanasia makes us less human.
             Dr. Kevorkian is an arguably useless doctor who mak...