Dr. Leon Schwartzenberg, a Holocaust survivor who became an early proponent of euthanasia, has died in France. “Euthanasia is ugly,” he once wrote. “Maintaining the life of a dying person who is suffering without hope is vile.” Schwartzenberg, who headed a cancer division at a hospital in a Paris suburb and served in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994, died Tuesday at age 79.
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