Assisted Suicide Advocate Jack Kevorkian Dies
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DETROIT (AP) — Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world’s attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder, has died in a Detroit area hospital after a short illness. He was 83.
Kevorkian, who said he helped some 130 people end their lives from 1990 to 1999, died about 2:30 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, close friend and prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth said.
He had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems, Morganroth said.
An official cause of death had not been determined, but Morganroth said it likely will be pulmonary thrombosis.
“I had seen him earlier and he was conscious,” said Morganroth, who added that the two spoke about Kevorkian’s pending release from the hospital and planned start of rehabilitation. “Then I left and he took a turn for the worst and I went back.”
Nurses at the hospital played recordings of classical music by composer Johann Sebastian Bach for Kevorkian before he died, Morganroth said.
Kevorkian was freed in June 2007 after serving eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder. His lawyers had said he suffered from hepatitis C, diabetes and other problems, and he had promised in affidavits that he would not assist in a suicide if he was released.
In 2008, he ran for Congress as an independent, receiving just 2.7 percent of the vote in the suburban Detroit district. He said his experience showed the party system was “corrupt” and “has to be completely overhauled from the bottom up.”
His life story became the subject of the 2010 HBO movie, “You Don’t Know Jack,” which earned actor Al Pacino Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his portrayal of Kevorkian. Pacino paid tribute to Kevorkian during his Emmy acceptance speech and recognized the world-famous former doctor, who sat smiling in the audience.
Pacino said during the speech that it was a pleasure to “try to portray someone as brilliant and interesting and unique” as Kevorkian and a “pleasure to know him.”
Kevorkian himself said he liked the movie and enjoyed the attention it generated, but told The Associated Press that he doubted it would inspire much action by a new generation of assisted-suicide advocates.
“You’ll hear people say, `Well, it’s in the news again, it’s time for discussing this further.‘ No it isn’t. It’s been discussed to death,” he said. “There’s nothing new to say about it. It’s a legitimate ethical medical practice as it was in ancient Rome and Greece.”
Eleven years earlier, he was sentenced in the 1998 death of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient – a videotaped death shown to a national television audience as Kevorkian challenged prosecutors to charge him.
“The issue’s got to be raised to the level where it is finally decided,” he said on the broadcast by CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Nicknamed “Dr. Death” because of his fascination with death, Kevorkian catapulted into public consciousness in 1990 when he used his homemade “suicide machine” in his rusted Volkswagen van to inject lethal drugs into an Alzheimer’s patient who sought his help in dying.
For nearly a decade, he escaped authorities’ efforts to stop him. His first four trials, all on assisted suicide charges, resulted in three acquittals and one mistrial.
Murder charges in earlier cases were thrown out because Michigan at the time had no law against assisted suicide; the Legislature wrote one in response to Kevorkian. He also was stripped of his medical license.
People who died with his help suffered from cancer, Lou Gehrig’s disease, multiple sclerosis, paralysis. They died in their homes, an office, a Detroit island park, a remote cabin, the back of Kevorkian’s van.
Kevorkian likened himself to Martin Luther King and Gandhi and called prosecutors Nazis, his critics religious fanatics. He burned state orders against him, showed up at court in costume, called doctors who didn’t support him “hypocritic oafs” and challenged authorities to stop him or make his actions legal.
“Somebody has to do something for suffering humanity,” Kevorkian once said. “I put myself in my patients’ place. This is something I would want.”
Devotees filled courtrooms wearing “I Back Jack” buttons. But critics questioned his publicity-grabbing methods, aided by his flamboyant attorney Geoffrey Fieger until the two parted ways before his 1999 trial.
“I think Kevorkian played an enormous role in bringing the physician-assisted suicide debate to the forefront,” Susan Wolf, a professor of law and medicine at University of Minnesota Law School, said in 2000.
“It sometimes takes a very outrageous individual to put an issue on the public agenda,” she said, and the debate he engendered “in a way cleared public space for more reasonable voices to come in.”
Even so, few states have approved physician-assisted suicide. Laws went into effect in Oregon in 1997 and Washington state in 2009, and a 2009 Montana Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized the practice in that state.
In a rare televised interview from prison in 2005, Kevorkian told MSNBC he regretted “a little” the actions that put him there.
“It was disappointing because what I did turned out to be in vain. … And my only regret was not having done it through the legal system, through legislation, possibly,” he said.
Kevorkian’s ultimate goal was to establish “obitoriums” where people would go to die. Doctors there could harvest organs and perform medical experiments during the suicide process. Such experiments would be “entirely ethical spinoffs” of suicide, he wrote in his 1991 book “Prescription: Medicide – The Goodness of Planned Death.”
His road to prison began in September 1998, when he videotaped himself injecting Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old Lou Gehrig’s disease patient, with lethal drugs. He gave the tape to “60 Minutes.”
Two months later, a national television audience watched Youk die and heard Kevorkian say of authorities: “I’ve got to force them to act.” Prosecutors quickly responded with a first-degree murder charge.
Kevorkian acted as his own attorney for most of the trial. He told the court his actions were “a medical service for an agonized human being.”
In his closing argument, Kevorkian told jurors that some acts “by sheer common sense are not crimes.”
“Just look at me,” he said. “Honestly now, do you see a criminal? Do you see a murderer?”
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The Third Archon
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 11:08pmWe should always watch such a thing carefully, but there are times, given our current technology, where it is impossible save a life, merely prolong it in a state of helpless torture. What is the difference between letting such a soul die, and killing them if it is their wish and simply leaving them to die would be a longer and more painful process leading to the same inevitable result. I oppose death–I believe that we shall transcend it with our technology someday. However, in the meantime, it must sometimes be moral to ease the plight of the dying, and Kevorkian sounds like a man who did this in a reasonable, and not inhumane, way.
And Humanity Shall Overcome, No Matter What the Cost
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 1:41amwho killed him?
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:39amNature!
Report Post »aurora53
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:49pmThe medical field makes too much money off of suffering victims. Do you really think that they want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Jack did not kill anyone. He gave them the means to commit suicide and at their choice. What do you think planned parenthood is about? The unborn can’t even speak for themselves yet those involved make money every time they abort a fetus.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:50pmi’d LIKE TO THINK IF i WAS PARALIZED AND WANTED! WANTED ! TO DIE AND COULD NOT KILL MYSELF THERE WOULD BE A DR. LIKE THIS AROUND ! R. I . P .
Report Post »DenDave
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 5:32pmThe_Ancient is right on!
Report Post »I have humanely let my pets pass on with “assisted suicide” and it is the most caring, peaceful way to die. Likewise, I just watched my father-in-law, stricken with pancreatic cancer, wither away to bones over the course of two weeks while a drug-enduced haze. The last couple days we were at his bedside begging him to die. THAT is not humane and NOT the way any God would want a human being to die!
affinnity
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:33pmThe thing that bothered me about him was that he would help people commit suicide in Motel rooms and leave the clean-up of dead bodies, transporting of corpses and funeral arrangements to others. I always thought this was rude of him and his suicidal patients. It would seem to me if you’re going to die with dignity you would arrange for your own clean-up and transport of your decaying body, make your own funeral arrangements and pay for 100% of the costs involved for cremation and/or burial expenses. It would also be nice to leave a note and nice tip for the maid who is going to discover your dead old rotting corpse.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:38pmThat is because it is illegal and no hospital will arrange it. I am sure they would have chosen a different location had the government not imposed their views on a personal choice
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 5:35pmAh a tip capitalism at its best!! yes very rude!!
Report Post »richard bensen
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:05pmFor all that think Dr.Kevorkian was a killer,I say the opposite.His service to the dying was for mercy.These people chose their path to end their suffering.As a husband of 31 years,my wife is in the final stage of Lou Gehrig’s disease.I have seen her digress from 155 lbs, to now a frail 60 lbs.Although I won’t go into this devastating diseases symptoms (look it up} I can see how some wish for an early exit.The point of this rant is,Dr.Kevorkian was labeled as a murderer yet these same so called righteous prosecutors who bedazzled everyone on how evil he was,always turn a blind eye to the fact that thousands of Abortions are committed yearly,AND they don’t have a choice.Either way the law don’t make it right.
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Report Post »BradWX
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:19pmRichard,
It has been a year since my dad died from that horrible disease. I saw the movie based on Dr.Kevorkian about month after my father passed away. It changed my mind on him completely (in a good way) to find that an majority of his patients were ALS patients. To watch someone not be able breathe, eat, drink and literally move is scary for us as the care giver. Who knows really how hard it is on the person going through it. My dad was strong through out the entire process of losing everything little by little. If he had not been on the ventilator and had the option to shut it off, he would have died of starvation and dehydration. A painful way to go.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife. Stay strong!!
Report Post »BradWX
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:57amI think he was truly helping people. He only assited people that could make the decision for themselves. I watched my dad die from ALS over a five year period. He did finally opt to be removed from the ventilator when he could no longer talk, eat and drink. He knew what he was doing and was ready to meet God. In the end it could be called an assisted suicide but really was an end to the beginning of real suffering.
Report Post »If you want to talk death panels he would not have had the 5 years on a ventilator. After the diagnosis of ALS the death panel would say you live till you die. That means 3 months over 5 years that God gave us to become closer as a family and truly know God’s work in our lives.
Let God judge Dr. K but in light of my own experience he was helping people overcome horrible pain and suffering at their request.
dissentnow
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:16amAssisted suicide is, at best, a natural right and should be left to the states to decide. RIP Dr. Kevorkian. I find it hard to believe that the same people who claim to be for small government are the very same people who want the federal government to legislate the most intimate moments in our personal lives. Spare me the biblical lectures. If you guys want to live in a theocracy, i suggest you move to egypt. I hear that its lovely this time of year…….
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:22amDont confuse “Conservatives” with “Small Government”, there are no conservatives that want small government, Both Liberals and Conservative want Big Government, the both want government to control your every thought and action, they are 2 sides of the same big government coin, they only differ how you will act under their control, what business will be allowed under their control,etc.
libertarians (small L, not the party) are the ones advocating small government
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 1:05amdissentnow
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:16am
Assisted suicide is, at best, a natural right and should be left to the states to decide.
No, it should not be left up to the State, but, to the Doctors and Family members only!
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 7:28amNo, sir. It should be left up to the states to decide, much like abortion, marriage, and drug laws should be. If Ohio wants to legalize assisted suicide then they should be free to do so but if North Carolina doesn”t want it in their state, then they should not be forced into it by the federal government.
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:36amNo, sir. It should be left up to the states to decide…
So you want a Nanny State? Have you ever lived with a “Terminal Ill” patient 24/7? You see this is one reason “Religion Laws” ought to stay out of my personnel business! Is it murder? No just as long as the individual has a will on how he/she wants to die! And who are you playing as “GOD”!
Ask yourself, why are States against what Dr. Jack has done? It all has to due with money my friend. It has nothing to due about human life…Think about!
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:36amI am an advocate of assisted suicide but only on the state level, as we are a republic and that is how a republic works. i.e. rights not goverened by the federal government, by way of the constitution, are thrown back to the states to decide.
Report Post »If anyone here supports a big, bloated nanny state it is you, sir. You want the federal government to impose its will on states that do not support assisted suicide.
Also, i’m an atheist, so don’t play the religion card on me.
On a personal note, I HAVE watched someone die of a terminal illness……a 9 year old boy from cancer, to be exact, and i witnessed every stage, hence the reason that i’m an atheist…..do not assume that i don’t understand your passion because i do.
RationalMan
Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:57pmdissentnow,
Report Post »Please reread what I’v said!
dissentnow
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:59amI have and i responded. If you can’t handle it, that is fine. Good day, sir
Report Post »CatherineAnn
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:08amIf we are to truly be free, we should have the right to die as we choose. God will be the judge of our decisions and other men should stay out of that relationship.
Report Post »smallenoughtocare
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:53amGrowing up I never believed in suicide due to my religious beliefs. However, I do believe that it truly is only God’s judgement that really matters, so if someone commits suicide it’s not in my place to judge them or whoever might have assisted them. A death is a death, it’s a tragedy to someone somewhere.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:46amDeath bed repentances are rare. “As a tree falls, so it lies”. (proverbs) Now that he had to face death himself, I wonder what his last moments were like. Did he see hell, or, did he see heaven?
Report Post »PleaseExplain
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:52amDo you really think non-believers actually embrace religion on their death bed? We have a little more dignity than that. We aren’t non-believers to be contradictory and go against the grain, we are non-believers because we simply don’t believe. Please understand that.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:46amRe the pro-assisted suicide people – to me, it’s similar to the abortion pro-choice deal. The thinking is if the woman wants to get rid of the “fetus”, it’s her choice, & the “doctor” who helps her with that is to be admired for helping. In general, the “prochoicers”/Kavorkian types, the respect for God, life and belief in the Bible is lacking & people then tend to think that whatever they think is “right” to them is correct.
Report Post »“But the man who isn‘t a Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him, because ony those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others just can’t take it in. But the spiritual man has insight into everything, and that bothers and baffles the man of the world, who can’t understand him at all. How could he? For certainly he has never been one to know the Lord’s thoughts, or to discuss them with him, or to move the hands of God by prayer.” 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 And yes, I know all about loved ones dying of “wasting diseases” – my mother and a very good friend. It was horrible, but I never thought it would be right if they asked me to help them end their lives. I believe and respect that God is the only one to decide that. Yes, they have a right to do that themselves but we don’t have a “moral” right to HELP. I don’t depend on my human reasoning.
I don’t know everything about everything like
momprayn
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:47amLast sentence – I don’t know everything about everything like God.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:00amDont turn this in to an abortion debate…
There is NOTHING similar about the two issues, one is a person(s) choosing to kill another person, where this is a person choosing to KILL THEMSELVES. if you think those are the same you have the IQ of an ice cube.
As far as the Bible goes, that has not bearing on the legal issue, your religion should not dictate my legal rights, unless you want the Quran should have legal weight as well.
Providing the Drugs so people can end their suffering is better than people suffering and/or trying to kill themselves with Plastic Bags, Drowning or the many other ways it happens today, and denying that does not change the facts of the matter.
Stop trying to control other people, what would god think of you remove peoples free will?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:21amAnyone where that comments negatively on assisted suicide, has never watched a family member waste way for years dieing a slow painful death. There are things worse than death, I have seen them. I do not fear death, I fear a wasting Disease where people prolong my agony claiming it to be “for my own good” when in fact it is purely because they, you, can not face your own mortality
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:18amYou can agree with or disagree with the Doc. God is the one that created us, and He is the only one that has the ultimate decision. If you don’t believe in a Creator then I will leave that up to you to discuss with Him when you meet.
Report Post »jtm
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:12amHell gains a new resident. Wonder why he didn’t follow his own advice?
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 5:10pmYoure so wrong, kavorkian never advised people to die by suicide, he listened to people who had no other place to go. He did not suffer from the painful diseases that his patients suffered from, who are you to say he should have killed himself. The stupidity amazes me.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:06amDr. Death meets “Real Death” film at 11.
Report Post »jordy2010
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:04amI wonder if Dr. Death had any help with his ”passing”????
Report Post »LoisLane1951
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:45amSerial killer dies.
Report Post »Film at eleven.
CaptainKook
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:52amFAIL
next!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:53amHEADLINE: Natural Causes Take Suicide Doctor
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:42amWell I guess this is news, I don’t know if what he did was right or wrong. I can see both sides of the coin, I guess for me it really boils down to what that person and the family wanted, it is none of my business, hopefully I would never be faced with that problem. I am sure JK was a good man in his own right, my sympathy to the family…
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:34amThey should have assisted him with a rope.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:41amWell, THAT was a stupid comment.
Report Post »djhrr
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:44amSo let me see if I get this straight. You do not agree with him supplying people with a way to kill themselves, which can be understandable given a point of view. However your response is I hope someone killed him? In a violent way? I won’t cast stones, but I just want to say I disagree with that thought pattern.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:54amHe helped pave the way for the death panels.
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:05am“He helped pave the way for the death panels.”
No he didn’t, just because assisted suicide methods would be used that was not his point. His point was, if you wanted to leave the pain and suffering behind you should be able to choose to do that. He was not advocating other people deciding for you….there is a line there…..it is thin but there is a line…
I say if anyone wants to do it….ill or not, then they should have the choice…..but that is just me….lol
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:07amAnd I’m not saying that choice is a smart one. But it should be a choice….
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:20amNext it will be the elderly, those with mental and physical disorders.Look at some of Hitler’s propaganda posters.You have to start somewhere.Population control is on the U.N.’s agenda.That‘s why they don’t mind the gays.They don’t reproduce.What do you think the movie “Logans Run” was about? the death panels are coming!
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:54pmThere is a huge difference between euthanasia and death panels. That difference? Freedoms and choices!
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:34amI really think this man was railroaded by the legal system. Honestly, I don’t think did anything wrong, but rather he helped people end their own terminal suffering.
Rest in Peace, Jack. You were an Angel of Mercy on Earth.
Report Post »Tusker
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:40amI totally agree with you and Captain Kook.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:48amI always believed in what Dr Kevorkian was trying to do. Rest in peace.
Report Post »jtm
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:14amHe was a murderer, pure and simple.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:03amYep a murderer….
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 12:49amAmazing, not one of you ever, released me from the hospital when my mom was “Suffering” as she wants her life to be taken due to “Pain” and you call this murder? Bowlsh*t! Why don’t you Holy then Thou attend the Hospital or Nursing homes to help these family out? You guys are nothing , but, a bunch of “Hypocrites”! I take it you people love “Suffering and Sacrifice”?
Dr. Jack you’ll be missed!!!!!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:31amKevorkian was a hero – your right to allow yourself to die on your own terms unimpeded by by law is in line with basic libertarian principles.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:15amI think you are right as to how you want to die is your right. But however, the government already thinks that we can’t make responsible decisions about ourselves. So we are going to have to be very careful as to the right to die.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:22am“the government already thinks that we can’t make responsible decisions about ourselves.”
Given what I read on this board if that’s true they have a point
But since that assertion is part of Right-Wing Talk Radio Cult-Think – I say it is not true.
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:33amI have seen My father, my oldest brother, my husband and my mother all die from terminal illness. It is up to GOD to make the decision when and how we die. It is our penance. I firmly believe death is one of the great miracles of Life. We are not alone at this time. I am a witness
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:02amCaptain….Your time on Earth is ordained by GOD…Not by you. Its God’s terms, not yours. I guess you like abortion too. Murder is murder you moron.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:52pmFor people who believe that their body is theirs to use, how can you be against suicide or assisted suicide? It doesn’t mean you have to utilize it for yourself, but how dare you tell someone whether or not they should continue to suffer and be a burden onto their friends and family. I know the family and friends won’t see them as a burden, but to the suffering and dying, they feel that way. If they can feel anything beyond the pain of dying. It is their body and they can decide to end their suffering at any time they want. God isn’t the one tell them to stay alive and continue suffering, Government is!
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:56pm@DUSTYLUV.. .”Your time on Earth is ordained by GOD…Not by you.”
As determined by who, exactly? You? Give me a break and mind your own business. If I decide to check out on my own… screw you to say otherwise. Keep your self-righteous, albeit sadistic, beliefs to yourself by not imposing them on others who don’t subscribe to fairy tales.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:30amHmmmmm, wonder how that worked out for him.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:42amI wonder if he pulled his own plug?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:46amThe Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
Report Post »The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he says he’s not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not.
The Dead Collector: He isn’t.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
CaptainKook
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:47amI’m sure it worked well – he chose the manner of his death.
If you’ve never seen a terminally ill patient being kept alive for months or even years – willingly or not – by medical technology, I suggest you try to imagine being trapped inside an aching unsuable body but with your mind intact – like a horror movie.
Report Post »Kevorkian was a HERO.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:00am@Tron:
Look at the meeting that took place right afterwards…
(The doctor: “Uh why is all of this place on fire and a dude with a pitchfork and red suit over there looking at me that way…
(UBL: “Guess you got fooled as well…my name is doggie and I have 72 friendly goats that grin all over the place…consider your blessings…
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:08amDidn’t kill himself? Hypocritical POS!
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:37amJust look at his paintings and it becomes clear that he is a satanic death worshiper who lusts after the power he feels when another dies as a result of his “help”. He is progessivism unvarnished: a lust for power in its rawest form which is to attain godlike status dealing death to others without remorse, you can taste his disdain and condescension towards God and those who follow Him in his descriptions of his works.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/aboutk/art/
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:00amI can see why he became a pathologist.He was facinated with death.His paintings reveal his facination.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:27pmKevorkian was a serial killer. He didn’t sneak up on his victims, like most of them do. Kevorkian exploited their vulnerabilities and lured them in. That must have been an interesting conversation — Kevorkian explaining all of those “assisted suicides” to Almighty God. How can a “Dr Death” stand in the presence of the Creator Of All?
It‘s not for any of us to say where Jack’s spending his Eternity. One can never know what change of heart and mind may have transpired, between a mere human and Jesus, before that last breath was breathed. Eternal decisions must be made this side of Eternity. And, sometimes, only God knows what that Eternal decision was. Speaking for myself, I can’t wish an Eternity in hell on anyone.
Report Post »Trance
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:36pmI wish he were still practicing. My father in law has been laying in bed for over a month now with cancer spreading through his body. They can’t treat it, the cancer’s been spreading, he is in such intense pain that even the morphine isn’t enough. It’s stomach cancer, so he can’t take anything through his mouth, and the tube meant to drain the stomach acid fell out, and can’t be put back in. Every day when my wife goes in to see him, there’s something screwed up. Yesterday he was laying in a his own filth, his feeding tube was clogged, and they hadn’t given him his morphine yet. He doesn’t speak English, so the staff really doesn’t want to deal with him. I just hope he passes before my wife has a complete nervous breakdown.
It’s torture not allowing him to end his own life in a peaceful way.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:05pmis it not amazing that this old bastard that loved killing others did not have the balls to kill himself…another lib piece of shet…
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:52pm@ Trance
Where is your father-in-law? It sounds like he’s getting substandard care! Maybe the authorities need to be called in to shut them down. Maybe he needs to be moved where he will be treated with respect and compassion.
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