He has less than a year to live?? Can't we take him to the Dr. or something???
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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He got Hep C in Vietnam? Was he doing drugs?
That's the usual way, or from too many visits to a local whore house.
Amazing what people will do for their 15 minutes of fame...
Amazing how sitting in a prison cell for all those years will make you see the error of you ways. I wonder had he not been sentenced to prison would he regret his decisions. I have to think probably not.
He certainly got his jollies from it. I remember his grinning, defiant face on TV, along with his accomplice lawyer - whose name escapes me.
Sounds as though he is suffering.
Maybe he can get a helping hand . . . .
He has less than a year to live?? Can't we take him to the Dr. or something???
Geoffery Fieger, leading Dem lawyer in Michigan.
yep and some were just depressed. All they needed was some counseling and a good Pyschiatrist, but nope Dr. Death has the cure! It is sad he is just realizing that his way was not the way to go, but too little too late.
Isn't Crom a made-up god? By R. E. Howard? 'Course there are lots of pagan mythologies that I'm not familiar with. I
That is most likely where he got addicted to watching death!
To: Abathar
He got Hep C in Vietnam? Was he doing drugs?
by colorado tanker
He was doing monkeys.
LOL!
Thanks. After listening to WJR radio (Detroit) for so many years, you'd think that name would never leave me.
God is waiting on us as well.
Let see.
He is terminally ill.
He is NOT going to get well.
He is in a miserable place.
Why doesn't HE end HIS life?
Why?
(crickets chirping).
Who is Crom?
Well, now, that's the question. The world is full of gods, many of them apparently made up. How to tell the made-up gods from the real ones, especially when the origins of some are in the misty past with no provenance?
Choose wisely... you wouldn;t want to select, say Lutheran when it turns out that the *real* god actually looks like this:
So... what is ol' Doc Death in store for? Will he be able to answer the riddle of steel, or will Crom laugh and him and throw him out of Valhalla?
h'mm, interesting.
Dear Jack, Best of luck in your new location. Yours, Robwin
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