Historian Ezekiel Emanuel claims that the modern use of euthanasia began with the invention of anaesthesia. The first known anti-euthanasia law was passed in the state of New York in 1828.
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The euthanasia debate has raged since the Civil War era. In the years following the war, public support peaked at the turn of the century and then again in the 1930s, when Euthanasia Socities began to spring up in the US and UK.