• When living becomes unbearable, euthanasia is carried out.
• Even royals used to resort to it.
• The documentary film titled George V: The Tyrant King on Channel 5 talks about how the doctor of the cruel monarch King George V euthanized him with a lethal dose of cocaine and morphine.
• But why?

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King George V and his life

There is a documentary on Channel 5 termed George V: The Tyrant King. This film talks in detail about the life of the cruel monarch who was the grandson of Queen Victoria and the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.

The king had a very pleasant image in public but in private circles, he was considered to be very cruel, mean, and demanding.

King George V treated his wife like a slave. He had a Tsar cousin and friend Nicholas II in Russia. When the latter asked him for asylum, King George V refused it to him.

Hence, due to this, the Bolsheviks murdered the Tsar. Additionally, the documentary reveals the diary entries of the king’s doctor Lord Dawson. It shows that the doctor had euthanized the king at the latter’s age of 70.

The royal euthanasia!

One would be shocked to watch and learn that the King was killed by his doctor Lord Dawson by injecting him with a lethal dose of cocaine and morphine.

The doctor gave the king the lethal dose of the dual injection at 11 pm on 20 January 1936 so that the death news would come on the front pages of The Times newspapers the next day.

This whole fact of euthanasia of the King was a secret for many years. It was five decades later in 1986 that the royal archives made public Lord Dawson’s diary which mentions all details of this death.

The doctor’s note read:

‘At about 11 o’clock, it was evident that the last stage might endure for many hours, I therefore decided to determine the end and injected three-quarters gram of morphia (morphine) and shortly afterwards one gram of cocaine into the distended jugular vein,’

And expert opinions on this euthanasia

Royal expert and biographer Angela Levin has also put in his commentary in the documentary. She states:

‘He also manipulated it so that he would die just before midnight. So that his death would make the front page of The Times, which was the king’s favourite paper.

‘There’s been this argument about whether it was murder of euthanasia. If you look at it objectively it was a huge decision to make to kill a king without absolute authority. It’s a very dark but interesting mystery,’

And another royal expert Ingrid Stewart states:

 ‘He fell ill with a cold and after five days he was bed ridden, he was obviously going.

‘People are saying in effect he killed the king. It’s a very controversial debate these days, the medical team certainly had more power than they do today.’

Queen’s former spokesperson Dickie Arbiter said:

‘Mary [his wife],  is certainly not someone who could condone euthanasia she was highly religious and she said one thing or another, she let her feeling be known.

‘Was it the right thing to do? It’s not for us to judge. Would the King have survived? Probably not. Would he have suffered? Undoubtedly yes,’