[Rob Instigator]

 

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

[tesla69]

I think it is was Stalin who said the State maintains the monopoly on Death.

[!@#$%!]

hell yes, very well said.

[atari 2600]

cuz

[pao-lino]

god bless you, dr. Kevorkian

[Katy]

I read about this a few weeks ago.

He shouldn't have been in prison in the first place, in my opinion.

But good that he's finally being let out. Shame that he's only being let out because he's seriously/terminally ill, though. (I don't know if that's ironic or not. They must know that he'll probably "assist" his own death when he gets out.. and considering what he was in for.. surely that counts as a high risk of "reoffending"...)

Lovely of them to be lenient on an old dying man, though...

(Yes, I've decided it IS ironic.)

[SynthethicalY]

I heard of this today, I am glad.

[the ikara cult]

Shit, is this a potentially contentious issue everyone here agrees on?

[atsonicpark]

Hoooooooooray! The real patch adams!

[Rob Instigator]

and he is also a gifted surrealist artist. ere are some paintings and commentary by him on them.

WAR

 

What is war? Is it a soldier dying, or guns, or bombs, or crosses, or weeping mothers, or sport, or patriotism, or valor, or high paying jobs? What is war? Not hell. For that is merely evil. War is worse than evil. It is mind-boggling suicide --mass suicide-- with humankind devouring or trying to devour itself. In vain attemps to assuage some sort of weird, innate (and apparently insatiable) appetite nurtured by our true and beloved God, Mars, we will not settle for less than the "flower of evolution" as the main course, embellished by bountiful side dishes and fanciful shakers filled with the "fruits" of our marvelous hands and big starving brains. How long will we persist in this lethal nonsense? How long before we really believe that salvation lies not in an insane paradox fostered by brute and selfish gluttony, but in the far more "nutritious" and healthful viand in the sadly neglected garden of human compassion and understanding? Considering the status of brotherhood today, possibly too long.

FEVER

 

This is one of an original series of paintings (now lost) concerning various medical signs and symptoms. It depicts the great discomfort of intense bodily heat. The inferno is internal; and in some tragic cases even the will to live is charred.


BROTHERHOOD

 

Every person is physically a part of the fabric called humanity, which is --unilaterally-- bedizened with all kinds of nobel epithets and arbitrary virtues. On the contrary, the pervading spirit is, and always was, a miasma of distrust and suspicion, periodically accentuated by hate and outright mayhem and murder. Despite effusive lip service to sublime ideals, humanity's awe is lavished on its real god, Satan, whose suzerainty and leering confidence are sustained by his loyal subjects throughout the world --in Bosnia, Somalia, Ireland, India, the Middle East, Haiti, Cuba, Tibet, South Africa -- and Waco.

[Rob Instigator]

VERY STILL LIFE

 

The message here, though somewhat capricious, nebulous and indefinable, is clearly underscored by intense feeling. Brilliant colors highlight the melancholoy age-old balance between the warmth of life and the iciness of death, spiced with the sardonic humor of irony. The disquieting mood portends inescapable doom for the frail symbol of individual life and seemingly callous extinction of its evanescent aura. The age-old balance is certainly skewed.

HE IS RAISED

 

The annual resurrection by dumb bunnies of a pathetic, despairing, almost scorned image of the purported divinity is hardly noticeable amid the tawdry paraphernalia of irresistible paganism at its vernal orgy. It is a spectacle badly conceived, badly manipulated, and superbly desecrated by those hare-brained disciples of Mammon, who, with armfuls of brilliant multi-colored eggs and gleeful joy, framed in parade-stopping millinery, might, in a rare pseudo-pious mood briefly condescend to acknowledge some sort of disquieting mystery pervading it all. Such is the perfunctory Easter of modern western society which seems to have lost appreciation for anachronisms like rods and staffs and angels and lambs.

[atari 2600]

blood