No tears here for Jack Kevorkian:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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Dr. Kevorkian, a medical pathologist, challenged social taboos about disease and dying, willfully defied prosecutors and the courts, actively sought national celebrity, and spent eight years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the last of the more than 100 terminally ill patients whose lives he helped end.
What a ghoul he was. Even if we grudgingly accept the idea that he helped advance an important debate over assisted suicide, we have to cringe at the serial killer's compulsion to keep claiming more victims. Call him the John Brown of the euthanasia movement.
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Today, more than ever before, everyone needs to take a look at their own mortality. With healthcare advancing, millions today are "alive" that would have died thirty years ago. This puts a huge burden on workers who pay Medicare taxes. The question that everyone needs to ask is "do I have the right to be a burden on someone else?"
I would like to go quick. I do not want to lay around and vegetate for three, five or seven years. That is not life. I prefer quality of life over quantity of life. It may be that being severely injured in '79 in an explosion gave me a focus few have. Thanks to the quick action of MM2 Dave Perry and LCDR Mike Mullen (Admiral Mullen JCS) and god, I am alive today.
Is it humane to keep people alive by artificial means? What is the definition of a victim? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/victim?show=0&t=1307124490
From what I heard these people sought out Jack, not the other way around.