"Dr. Death" Kevorkian to be released on Friday

[garybeck]

Ailing 'Dr. Death' to leave prison
May 29, 2007



LANSING, Michigan (AP) -- For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves.

The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes."

His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states. (Watch Kevorkian show off his death machine )

But as he prepares to leave prison June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the death of a Michigan man, Kevorkian will find that there's still only one state that has a law allowing physician-assisted suicide -- Oregon.

Experts say that's because abortion opponents, Catholic leaders, advocates for the disabled and often doctors have fought the efforts of other states to follow the lead of Oregon, where the law took effect in late 1997.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/28/kevorkian.release.ap/index.html

[Botany]

1. Is he accepting new patients?

Just asking :rofl:

[stevedeshazer]

2. A man of compassion remains labeled as "Dr. Death"

What a bullshit article.

The picture is as unflattering as they could find.

"Watch Kevorkian show off his death machine"

I say, "Watch CNN show off to the radical right."

I'm tired of my state being depicted as "allowing physician-assisted suicide."

These lazy so-called journalists should be ashamed of themselves; it's far from the truth.

What's your opinion, garybeck?

[garybeck]

5. I agree with you.

Call him what you want, but anyone should have the right to die, particularly if they are terminal. What right does someone else have to tell them they have to suffer before they die.

if it were me, I would get my hands on a gun and do the deed myself if I were seriously terminal and in pain. I think everyone should have the right to do it without making such a mess. And I don't mean that jokingly. I talked to someone recently who had a friend who shot himself and said how much worse it made it for the family, the "scene" created by a self inflicted gunshot, the forever lasting visual impression they had of the violent end of his life. how much more peaceful it would have been for everyone if he could have done it legally and peacefully. i think Kervorian is a hero.

I'd bet that most Americans believe in the right to die, and if the Dems had any politcal sense they would make it one of the issues in the next election.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Thanks

It's been a very long day; sorry for the delayed response.

:thumbsup:

[hlthe2b]

7. Kevorkian, I am convinced, really wished to help those...

who medicine had forsaken... those in chronic, intractable pain.. those whose bodies had forever and irrevocably failed them.

Why is it that we laud the kindly compassionate act of euthanasia for animals, yet villify that same compassionate act for humans who likewise are suffering?

I'm grateful Kevorkian will live out his last remaining few days in freedom, but he should not have been imprisoned to begin with, if you ask me.

[XOKCowboy]

11. My thoughts exactly

He should never have been sent to prison.

[tyedyeto]

3. I don't have one foot in the grave... I'm only 54 but

if I'm ever in a position where I'm terminal, I would seek out a Dr. Kervorkian type in a heartbeat. Why live when the quality of life isn't there? I have a great respect for the Doctor and do not believe he should have spent a day behind bars as he was only granting the wishes of his patients.

Euthanasia is such a touchy subject, but everyone I have ever spoken to about the subject agrees with the Doctor about assisted suicide. People don't want to become vegetables in their later years and if the quality of life isn't there, they don't feel life is worth living anymore.

[man4allcats]

4. Jack Kevorkian is just another humanitarian who

became a victim of faith based America. God's speed, Dr. Jack.

[upi402]

6. The religion dominated state culls the ones ahead of the herd

Glad he's no longer victimized by our Christo fascist "justice" system.

[XOKCowboy]

8. Doctor Death? Dr. Kevorkian is one of my heroes

Eight years ago my grandmother finally passed away after wasting away with Alzheimer's for 4 years. This woman was the strongest woman I've ever known and watching her waste away like that was hard on all of us but especially my dad. The experience made him one of Dr. Kevorkian's strongest supporters.

Dr. Kevorkian let people know that there was Death With Dignity. My grandmother KNEW that she was deteriorating mentally. She told us how much it scared her and there was nothing we could do to help her. I really don't know that she'd have taken her own life but having the choice is what this is all about. I do know that she wouldn't have wanted to "live" like she did the last 3 years of her life. Crumpled in the fetal position, feeding tube, incontinent, no apparent recognition of anyone or anything.

Dr. Kevorkian may have gone too far in some respects (that's still up for debate) but his heart was in the right place IMHO. I'm glad he's finally out of jail.

[Lord Helmet]

9. I love this guy.

one of my heroes

[emilyg]

10. I love him, too.