Why Does This Sound Familiar?

This:

The committee will deliberate expanding MAID to the mentally ill ahead of the conclusion of a temporary federal ban on assisted suicides for individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, which is set to expire on March 17, 2027.

Oh, yes!:

Children’s euthanasia was a prologue to the more ambitious and destructive campaign to kill mentally ill adults. Sometime in July 1939, Hitler commissioned his escort physician, Karl Brandt, and the head of the Führer’s Chancellery, Philip Bouhler, to organize adult “euthanasia.” In collaboration with Herbert Linden of the Reich Ministry of the Interior’s Department IV (a co-developer of the children’s program), they assembled a circle of ideologically reliable doctors around them to assist with planning and executing the program. The circle included the chaired professor of neurology and Psychiatry, Max de Crinis; the director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology of Heidelberg University, Carl Schneider; Professor Berthold Kihn of Jena; and Werner Heyde, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Würzburg. The circle of initiates also included Ernst Wentzler, Helmut Unger, Hans Heinze, Hermann Pfannmüller, Dr. Bender of the mental hospital at Berlin-Buch, and Professor Paul Nitsche of the asylum at Sonnenstein near Pirna. In late July and August 1939, a series of meetings occurred between these hand-selected individuals in Berlin. Bouhler explained to the participants that “euthanizing” mental patients in German asylums and nursing homes would create necessary hospital space for the impending war, freeing up medical staff to care for the wounded. Bouhler further indicated that Hitler had refrained from publishing a euthanasia law for foreign policy reasons. He went on to reassure everyone present that they would be immune from criminal prosecution for their actions in connection with the killing program, inviting dissenters to withdraw from involvement if they so desired.