4-622: The Euthanasia Educational Fund was established by of the Euthanasia Society of America in 1967 as a tax-exempt organization under US law . It later renamed itself the Euthanasia Educational Council in 1972, and Concern for Dying in 1978. The last name change was due to popular misconception that euthanasia referred to so-called " mercy killing ", which the society opposed. Concern for Dying promoted right to die legislation in several US states , as well as promoting
8-557: The idea of a living will and other legal measures supporting the right to die. By the 1980s the organization became one of the biggest groups promoting voluntary euthanasia in the US, alongside the Society for the Right to Die . The organization is currently defunct. Euthanasia Society of America The Euthanasia Society of America was founded on January 16, 1938, to promote euthanasia . It
12-537: The movement (such as Clarence Darrow , Sherwood Anderson , Abraham Wolbarst , Madison Grant , William J. Robinson and Willystine Goodsell ) were also eugenicists; many of these supported gassing those considered to have a developmental disability . However, in 1941 Mitchell condemned the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme , adding: "we are definitely opposed to the illegal, unregulated and surreptitious 'mercy-killings' by individuals, however much we may sympathize with
16-400: Was co-founded by Charles Francis Potter and Ann Mitchell. Alice Naumberg (mother of Ruth P. Smith ) also helped found the group. The group initially supported both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia . Many of its early board of directors (including co-founders Potter and Mitchell, Clarence Cook Little , Robert Latou Dickinson and Oscar Riddle ), as well as prominent supporters of
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