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Posted on 05/26/2006 10:37:54 AM PDT by Abathar
Today, on his 78th birthday, Jack Kevorkian, the man known as "Dr. Death," is slowly dying in prison.
And, according to his lawyer, Kevorkian seems to have second thoughts about helping people die.
For years, Kevorkian was the center of a national debate around the highly controversial questions surrounding physician-assisted suicide or "mercy killing:" Do the terminally ill have the right to choose when and how they die? Do doctors have the ability, even an obligation, to help them die as they choose?
Now, as he sits in jail, Kevorkian may have had a change of heart — not about his dedication to the "death with dignity" movement, but on how he went about promoting it.
Specifically, he questions the more than 100 suicides he said he assisted throughout the 1990s. One assisted suicide — the death of Lou Gehrig's disease patient Thomas Youk, which was taped and broadcast on "60 Minutes" in 1998 — earned him a prison sentence of 15 years to 20 years for second degree murder.
"He did what he did, and it brought it to public awareness [of physician-assisted suicide]," said Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth. "He now realizes that having performed it when it was against the law, wasn't the, probably, appropriate way to go about it. … What he should have done was work towards its legalization verbally. … Pursuing that cause, and not performing it because it still was against the law."
'He Gets Depressed at Times'
Less than a week ago, Morganroth publicly stated that doctors had told Kevorkian he had less than a year to live.
Kevorkian suffers from Hepatitis C, which he contracted during service in Vietnam. Morganroth said Kevorkian's liver enzyme levels were three to four times above normal — a clear signal his liver was failing.
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Dr Death or his lawyer secretary been watching my soap opera "Young and the Restless!" they also for the pass couple weeks been talking about getting an ill person release out of the Prison early, due to health reasons such as dying etc.
"It will be wrong tomorrow. I won't change my mind about that. I'll continue praying that you do. A soul is a terrible thing to waste."
First, you have no clue as to what forced Euthanasia really is. Second, I looked for you, hardly. You aren't my cup of tea. Third, Coco Puffs? LOL! That's a new one to me. Only in your mind. Fourth, I participated on Schiavo threads when the subject on those threads was Schiavo, not on a Kevorkian thread where the subject is Kervorkian, not Schiavo. Get your thread topics straight. Fifth, I can't imagine you ever changing your mind, because that assumes you have one. Sixth, please pray. Prayer is a good thing. However, don't waste it on me, I don't want your prayer, as you aren't the kind of person I want prayer from. Try praying for your own soul. I'm busy praying with Pope Benedict XVI on TV right now in Kracow, Poland. Buzz off and don't ruin my good mood watching the Pope. Don't feel like dealing with a mental midget at the same time. Nitey nite.
Are you too lazy to look at the first post between us on this thread, or just too stupid? You posted to me.
Are you too lazy to look at the first mention of Schiavo on this thread, or just too stupid? You brought it up.
I see you're still the same filthy liar you've always been. You earned the nickname Coco Puffs when you had a psychotic episode on a thread completely unrelated to Schiavo. You bounced around the thread, screaming in all caps, that there were crazy people on some other thread, and everyone should beware. That's when people started posting pictures of the Cuckoo for Coco Puffs bird in response to some of your loony posts. Only some them, because almost all of your posts were loony, and it would have been difficult to post the picture in response to all of them. I didn't start it, but I did post it a couple times myself. Who could resist?
I do know what forced euthanasia is, and you advocated it on many occasions. But why don't you tell us what you think it is? That should be entertaining.
If Christians aren't the kind of people you want praying for you, who is?
If Christians aren't the kind of people you want praying for you, who is?
Anyone other than ones that think like you. What part of buzz off don't you understand. And, by the way, you've lost your mind. You can keep responding, but I won't be answering you anymore, as dealing with the demented is not my bag.
Were you praying for Pope John Paul II when he was praying for Terri to not be starved to death? I guess everyone knows the answer to that, including you.
You're certainly entitled to your own opinion.
Probably not, but she was praying with this Pope while typing out lies. I don't think she quite understands what prayer is.
I don't believe in one part of your predicate : )
Me neither, but that was the claim. ; ) I'm thinking maybe they were both praying at the same time, just not for the same things, nor to the same God. Would that qualify as praying together, in a technical, rationalizing sort of way?
I think you forgot the word UP.
Good line, BTW.
yeah, i'd corrected myself in the very next post. check it out.
thanks! =)
// You can bet he didn't acquire his death outlook in his later years in life. //
As you say: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/aboutk/art/ [prion posted this link on earlier thread]
CHAPTER ONE: THE EYES OF DEATHThe hanged man's bloated bare feet dangle beneath the scaffold's trap door. The artist has us looking up, past the swinging man, at a powder blue sky mottled with white and pink clouds. The painting is by Jack Kevorkian.
Five times the young resident [28 yo] had gotten his ophthalmoscope to a patient's bedside minutes after death. This time, as he wheeled in the bulky mounted camera, he was elated to find the patient still alive. Finally, he could get shots of a cornea before, during and after death. He taped open the sick woman's eyelids and focused his lens.
He had asked to work nights at Detroit Receiving Hospital because more patients died then. His mission was to discover how eyes changed at the moment of death. Jokingly, he called his quest the Death Rounds. For added effect, he sometimes would wear a black arm band. Co-workers called him Doctor Death. He accepted the nickname.
What compassionate care, taping open the eyelids of a patient entrusted to his care; what great comfort in her last moments on earth. Worthy of his reflection now.
Kevorkian is just a killer -- his prison term came about because he admitted in open court that he'd been the one to turn the valve open, not the "patient".
Unusually quiet, the poster is.
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This is what I thought the whole euthanasia debate was about, the lethal injection, until Michael Schiavo came along and made starvation and dehydration chic again. I'm glad Kevorkian is having second thoughts though, maybe Michael Schiavo will come around some day too. As pro-life author Mary Senander has pointed out everyone eventually dies but for the euthanasia crowd certain people (e.g. the disabled) are not dying fast enough.
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This is what I thought the whole euthanasia debate was about, the lethal injection, until Michael Schiavo came along and made starvation and dehydration chic again. I'm glad Kevorkian is having second thoughts though, maybe Michael Schiavo will come around some day too. As pro-life author Mary Senander has pointed out everyone eventually dies but for the euthanasia crowd certain people (e.g. the disabled) are not dying fast enough.
What a coincidence that you responded to that old posting when this just was posted also.
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