books.google.com - While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Merciful_End_The_Euthanasia_Movement_i.html?id=E1AKtIEIIvUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Merciful End : The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America