Letter re: High hypothetical interest in physician-assisted death in multiple sclerosis

Reading the article by Marrie et al.1 reminded me of Leo Alexander's horrifying report, which was published as the lead article in a 1949 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).2 As an expert at the Nuremberg trial, Alexander carefully reviewed the extensive medical records left behind by the Nazi regime. In the NEJM article,2 he mentioned one of the Nazi propaganda movies, I Accuse, which depicted the life history of a woman with multiple sclerosis. In the movie, the woman's husband, a doctor, finally kills her to the accompaniment of soft piano music rendered by a sympathetic colleague in an adjoining room. After describing extensively unimaginable cruelty, Alexander concluded
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research