This is astonishing info--George V's physician euthanized him in order to make the deadline for the

[tblue37]

next morning's edition of @thetimes:

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[FreepFryer]

1. belushi'd (nt)

[yonder]

5. Rollercoastered.

[magicarpet]

2. Well you can't say old doc,...

.... wasn't punctual.

Back then was euthanasia of royalty acceptable and legal ? Did he request of the doctor to be put out of his pain and misery ?

[catrose]

13. Yes, wondering what the King, Queen, and their nearest/dearest felt

[dsc]

3. That is mentioned in this video about the abdication of Edward VIII

[Chainfire]

4. At least the old boy didn't expire groaning in agony.

I can think of worse ways to go.

[malaise]

6. Different rules always apply to the wealthy and powerful

Why should anyone suffer when she/he is terminally ill or simply dying.

[malaise]

11. You nailed it

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Is he eligible for membership at Marmalardo?

[brush]

10. History is fascinating. Good thing the Brits got rid of...

that nazi sympathizer Edward. The whole history of the world and WWll wouldn't been different. Hitler and German might've won as Britain stood alone against the nazis for months until D-Day.

[mopinko]

12. still done today. hospice nurses will tell u if they trust u.

[jeffreyi]

14. There is nothing new about this.

Been going on for a long time.

[Croney]

15. Today I learned that TIL means today I learned.

Thank you, Google.

[2naSalit]

16. I just learned it...

Right NOW reading your post!

[Iggo]

18. Same.

[Hekate]

17. Medical practice waxes and wanes. Bloodletting was "in" for a very long time, and I remember an...

…extract of a woman’s letters from the 19th century (early? mid? ). She was quite ill and in pain, and told her correspondent that she had “instructed her physician, that when the time came he was to cut deeply into the vein.” In other words she was planning quite rationally to hasten her own death with the doctor’s help.

I’m a little confused about this King and the snippet gives no information about what he was dying of, but it was 1936. Worse, I think some people are conflating him with the King who abdicated — and lived to a ripe, cantankerous old age with “the woman he loved.”

Anyway, a quick Google search shows that George V, like his son (Elizabeth’s father) suffered from smoking related illnesses.

Officially it was bronchitis and a weak heart, but that covers an awful lot of territory, especially when nobody wanted to utter the word cancer.

Cancer was a known death sentence and a fearsome way to die. Typically, no matter one’s class or station, patients were not told they had it, and spouses were only reluctantly told. Or he could have had COPD, and been gasping desperately for breath.

Either way, the doctor’s actions seem much more merciful than callous. To this day there are sick people who beg their doctors or kin for a way out of the suffering.