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'Assisted Suicide' Doc Kevorkian Dies, report

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This was a very controversial person who thought he was doing good for people who had no chance at a normal life in his and their minds, or were suffering from massive pain.

Not sure how the majority of people felt about him.

I didn't make tthis a RIP so people cought express how they felt about him.

I have mixed feeling but then I died for about 4 minutes in 1984, and know there is more to life than here and now.

Jack Kevorkian: 'Dr. Death' Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83 - ktla.com
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DETROIT -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian has died at the age of 83, according the Detroit Free Press, who spoke with his lawyer.

Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he had been hospitalized for about two weeks with kidney and heart problems, attorney Mayer Morganroth told the newspaper.

Morganroth said it appears Kevorkian suffered a pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart. With Kevorkian were his niece Ava Janus and Morganroth.
 
So long as the people were seeking him out and knew that what was coming was what they wanted I'm fine with what he did. If he was seeking out the sick and pushing his system onto them for some sort of sick pleasure I'm not so sure. Honestly, his controversy occurred before I could recognize the implications, so I'm not very familiar with exactly how he did his works, nor was it interesting enough that I wanted to resesarch it.

RIP, though.
 
My only regret here is that he died before he had a chance to "help out" George Bush and Barack Obama. :mrgreen:
 
My only regret here is that he died before he had a chance to "help out" George Bush and Barack Obama. :mrgreen:

lol, cue secret service in 3...2...1....
 
The guy was a crazy, egotistical nut, not some hero. Good riddance.
 
The man was a hero, giving compassion to the suffering that our perverse, profit-driven healthcare system would not allow.
 
The man was a hero, giving compassion to the suffering that our perverse, profit-driven healthcare system would not allow.

IMO, it is not the health care system fault, but political views that had him in a bad light.
 
IMO, it is not the health care system fault, but political views that had him in a bad light.

We spend more money on healthcare in the last 18 years of our lives than the entire rest of them, and almost all of that is completely pointless. You think the hospital industry is going to give up those profits?
 
The man was a hero, giving compassion to the suffering that our perverse, profit-driven healthcare system would not allow.

He was nothing other than a death enthusiast and a convicted felon. He compared our Supreme Court to Nazi Germany and opposed even seat belt and helmet laws. It was not about compassion, he just hated the human race.

yourchoiceindying.com » Kevorkian goes green: Runs for Congress Seat

As an opponent of Physician Assisted Suicide, I could not ask for a better advocate for it.
 
The guy was a crazy, egotistical nut, not some hero. Good riddance.

My sentiments exactly. I seriously doubt any of his victims were of sound body and mind. Hopefully Satan is shoving a pitchfork up his ass.
 
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He did 12 years in the pen for one of his assisted suicides. Mike Wallace interviewed him on 60 minutes. Mike asked: "would you do it again"? Jack said "no".
Of course all is well and dandy now in the great state of Oregon. RIP Jack

Speaking ill of the dead has never been recommended.

Edit: Councilman: If you do not have a certificate (long form) of death, then you did not die.
-deather
 
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We spend more money on healthcare in the last 18 years of our lives than the entire rest of them, and almost all of that is completely pointless. You think the hospital industry is going to give up those profits?

Your point is one way to look at it, but not mine. When it becomes socially and legally acceptable to have legal assisted end to ones life, the heath/medical industry would have no say in the matter. IMO, it is up to us as a sociaty. The hospital industry has "those profits" because we have not accepted legal end of life acts. It is up to us. Till the change happens the hospital industry will take in money during our late years.
 
I'm uncomfortable with Kevorkian because he was reportedly rather pushy in trying to get people to go through with assisted suicide. However, I support assisted suicide completely.

The idea that people should be essentially forced to suffer for no reason other than other people's inability to let them go is rather offensive to me. If I'm confined to a bed, pissing in a pot, and slowly losing my faculties, I want to be allowed to say "enough," and die the way I want to. That's part of my right to life and self-determination.

Everyone thinks it's kind to put your pet down when they are in too much pain, but we don't afford that basic dignity to humans. I think it's sick.
 
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I think Jack Kevorkian did important, pioneering work on our natural right to die that future Americans will recognize him for. As is often the case with revolutionary thinkers, his personality too often interfered with his message.
 
May he RIP, he lived a full, and amazing life.
 
People sought him out. And for the record, I think what he did was admirable. Few people have the courage to stand up for what they believe in. He spent over eight years in prison for it.
 
He died of complications from pneumonia. Wonder why he didn't use his own invention if he was so "principled".
 
He died of complications from pneumonia. Wonder why he didn't use his own invention if he was so "principled".

He didn't want to die, and pneumonia isn't terminal.
 
The guy was a crazy, egotistical nut, not some hero. Good riddance.

I don't intend on rotting away from some ungodly condition when I'm older - I've seen countless people just break down, degenerate, and ultimately die . . .all the while knowing it was coming and wanting to die sooner than later to forgo the misery. . . and modern medicine has a horrible tendency of just prolonging the suffering.

I most certain don't want to experience that.

Suicide sounds dandy to me - I supported Kavorkian and think it's offensive that people would prefer another person suffer ad naseum when they, themselves, aren't going to be the ones to clean out the colostomy bag or treat the bedsores.
 
June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—"The single worst moment of my life* . . . was the moment I was born." So says Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a recent interview with CNN.

Kevorkian: “The Single Worst Moment of my Life

So why'd he stick around so long?

From your article:

However, when it comes to himself, Kevorkian says that he is not ready to die. "I have purpose in my life and three missions," he said.

The first mission is to warn the human race of its “impending doom,” due to what Gupta labels a “culture of overabundance” that will lead to the “extinction” of the human race.

The second mission is to educate people about assisted suicide, or what Kevorkian calls “patholysis”– the destruction of suffering.

The third mission is “to convince the American public that their rights are infringed upon each and every day - and that the Ninth Amendment is not being upheld.”
 
I don't intend on rotting away from some ungodly condition when I'm older - I've seen countless people just break down, degenerate, and ultimately die . . .all the while knowing it was coming and wanting to die sooner than later to forgo the misery. . . and modern medicine has a horrible tendency of just prolonging the suffering.

I most certain don't want to experience that.

Suicide sounds dandy to me - I supported Kavorkian and think it's offensive that people would prefer another person suffer ad naseum when they, themselves, aren't going to be the ones to clean out the colostomy bag or treat the bedsores.

If you're going to heroize the the old nut, at least do it for what he actually stood for. He didn't believe in assisting suicide just for the terminally ill.

From the same link above,

"They just don't get it in Oregon, " he says. "Or in Washington state or Montana, the other states," where assisted suicide is currently legal.* Assisted suicide is only legal in these states if someone has a terminal illness.

"What difference does it make if someone is terminal?" he says. "We are all terminal."*

Five of Kevorkian's victims were found to be healthy after autopsies were performed.

He also believed that all laws were an infringement on freedom. As I say, I couldn't ask for a better spokesperson for assisted suicide.

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I think Jack Kevorkian did important, pioneering work on our natural right to die that future Americans will recognize him for. As is often the case with revolutionary thinkers, his personality too often interfered with his message.

Reminds me of Ron Paul. :mrgreen:
 
I have several friends in the Medical profession and I have learned that a lot of Doctors have compassion for patients that is not far from the Dr. Death's views on death without the suffering and pain.

They often will end the suffering of a patient when all hope of a miracle have left the building. Thy put them on a Morphine drip and eventually the cancer sufferer stops breathing.

There are no autopsies for people who die in a hospital under a Doctors care.

The Doctor signs the death certificate certifying the cause of death and no questions are ever asked.

I have a very close friend who is a Doctor and another who is an RN who work for a Hospice group and it happens all the time.

I saves the patient from prolonged pain and the family from suffering as well.
 
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