euthanasia-houses

Updated: June 2, 2025

She had suffered again for an hour or two from a more concrete fear; the memory came back to her of those shocking revelations that ten years ago had convulsed England and brought about the establishment of these Homes under Government supervision those evidences that for years in the great vivisection laboratories human subjects had been practised upon persons who with the same intentions as herself had cut themselves off from the world in private euthanasia-houses, to whom had been supplied a gas that suspended instead of destroying animation.... But this, too, had passed with the return of light.

Robert Hugh Benson - Lord of the World