Plea for a forgotten fighter - Let Kevorkian die at home with dignity

Capital Times ^ | 6-14-06 | Judi K-Turkel

[RedMonqey]

I think the key word here is "veterans as in Tampa VETERANS hospital.


I have heard horror stories from patients that would Stephen King outta business.

[TYVets]

What goes around, comes around.

[StAnDeliver]

(1) Comrade author is from the Peoples Republic of Madison. Enough said.

(2) Granholm is never going to commute Dr. Death's sentence, and risk looking weak on crime/prison/sentences.

(3) Kevorkian's spokesman has stated Dr. Death will renew his promotion of euthanasia if granted early release:

(ABCNews.com) -- "While Kevorkian stands firmly by the cause of physician-assisted suicide, his lawyer said he would promote the movement by speaking out or writing, not by helping out in any more suicides.
"At this point, he would never perform it again," Morganroth said. "But he certainly would work towards getting it legalized wherever possible."

(4) The Conservative First Rule - Preserve Life. Thusly make sure Dr. Death's Hep C is treated to the absolute fullest extent possible - in prison.

(5) Kevorkian will live out his life in prison.

[Ben Mugged]

Thank you for your compassion. I knew what would happen when I posted to this thread. I am pleasantly surprised by so many voices of support.

[top 2 toe red]

For some reason, I find this article hysterical! But then again, I like irony.

Lol! I suppose this is what the definition of ironic is, isn't it?

[Minutemen]

Didn't he get to take one of his death machines with him?

[goldstategop]

Starve him to death! Just like the caring folks did to Terri Schiavo. Drop the hypocrisy you're concerned about the dying. Admit the only compassion you liberals ever display is reserved for murderers like Jack Kevorkian. And of course he killed innocent people. But we don't need to be concerned about mourning the destruction of innocent lives - like the ones he stole from his victims. Instead, we get a plea to make a butcher's last hours on earth more comfortable. Spare me.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[MSSC6644]

But I suggest that the greater concern is losing the base with your kind of politics

It's not about politics. It's about TRUTH. It's about belief in an omnipotent Creator.

Politics, and the way it is practiced today is one of the main causes of our moral decline. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Our country's founding documents, the basis for who we are as a nation recognize this truth. To forget it, to take the God-given right granted to the people and to try to usurp those powers which are rightly God's can lead only to our eventual death.

This is what Conservatism is all about.

[Badray]

You are welcome. Your situation with your father is a lot different and deserving of compassion as well as action. I don't think it is related in any way to this man or to what he did to the people who sought his services. From what I have read, they were years from death, not days.

People like your father should be releived of their suffering even if it means advancing death by hours or days. I find no conflict with their Hypocratic Oath.

[Frank T]

Point taken.

I was speaking in the context of coalition politics, and not whether some things are more important than politics.

[The Red Zone]

Parole in mid-2007. Let 'im wait. If he exits with toe tag so be it.

[The Red Zone]

I don't understand the concern of doctors at that point. The patient is within days of death. It's not like the patient is going to become an addict.

It ain't the doctor but Uncle Sam in many cases. Seems the Feds are bent that as many as possible will go to heaven virtuous, untainted by any addiction and purified by much suffering.

[Badray]

I wonder how much the fed involvement was fought by the doctors. Like they wanted to shift the blame. Just speculating.

[The Red Zone]

The Fed stuff is an oligarchy picked by inbred Demopublican politics. If they were obligated to take a vote of American doctors at large, drug policy would be much more, pardon the term, liberal.

[Badray]

You are probably right.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting that old Dr. K NOW doesn't want to die.

Facing the same thing he demanded the courts REQUIRE that he be allowed to give others.

may the Lord have mercy on his soul, but ...... Dr. K MUST ask for forgiveness first. And I really wonder if his hate-filled, Satan-directed life will allow him that.

[The Red Zone]

BTW I am quite anti-suicide, but I'm not averse to the idea of pushing pain remedies "almost" to the brink (require close watching) if the patient is still complaining about severe pain and is within days of expected expiration. What's the worst, we get a miracle recovery and the patient has to be on someting like methadone the rest of his life.

[reagan_fanatic]

After 10 years in prison, he finally comes up for parole the middle of next year. But his friends tell me he may not live until then.

Sucks, doesn't it.

[BaBaStooey]

It is hilarious when many people who support Kevorkian also oppose the death penalty (and favor abortion).

If you are going to line up on these issues, please at least be consistent.

If someone supports abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty, at least they are consistent.

If someone supports the death penalty, but not the other two, at least they support life for the innocent and death for the guilty (and more than likely, they would oppose the death penalty, but fear that Dukakis will release the guilty serving life in prison).

If someone supports abortion and/or assisted suicide while opposing the death penalty, that in my mind makes absolutely no sense.

If someone opposes all three, like I do, all we have to do is make sure no one puts Dukakis back in charge of anything.

[Badray]

I'm on the same page. I see this as 'an end of suffering at the end of life issue' not something to be used for 'early out' suicide even though 'enough' morphine will kill the patient hours or days earlier.