1965 – Donald McKinney Becomes President of the Euthanasia Society of America

Donald McKinney becomes president of the Euthanasia Society of America (ESA).

“Over the next two decades [McKinney] would help to transform the euthanasia movement by leading a sizeable faction opposed to active euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. In the process he eventually concluded…that there was a fundamental distinction between passive and active euthanasia.”