The good doctor, one of my personal heroes and a man who in the future will be seen alongside such revolutionaries in medicine and patient care as marie curie, Jonas Salk , etc., as forerunners in medicine, will be released from [prison on Friday, after serving 8 YEARS for assiting the suicide of a michigan man.
Dr. Kevorkian is not DR DEATH, he is not a cold blooded killer, he is a doctor with profound ideas about how humans should be allowed to chose their death, to be able to die with dignity and under their own terms.
He helped many terminally ill people end their lives painlessly. Some of these were chronically ill people, others people who were heading down the road to debilitating multiple sclersis, or alzheimers, or othjer such diseases and disorders which leave a person unable to think, act, live, laugh, love, or enjoy a ny aspect of their existance.
THERE ARE WORSE FATES THAN DEATH
If humans have a RIGHT to live as they see fit, a slong as it does not infringe on other's rights to do the same, then humans should have the right to DIE as they see fit.
Dr. Kevorkian has long been a proponent of living wills, which have gained in acceptance through out the years.
If any of you have had, as I have had, the misfortune of having to witness a loved one die slowly, or lose their cognitive abilities due to neurological disease, or lose their ability to enjoy even the simple things in life due to severe motor impairment like parkinson's disease, then you know that the worst feeling in the world is watching your loved one endure the pain and suffering and outright terror of such an existance. FUCK religions for telling us that we cannot end our lives with dignity, while we are still able to make that choice. FUCK the government for making it equal to murder, to end someone's interminable suffering.
Dr. Kevorkian, I hope your work can inspire the medical community to understand that sometimes, prolonging life is really just prolonging the torture.
--Rob Instigator