Kevorkian to Be Paroled in June

AP ^ | 12/13/06 | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN

[Lunatic Fringe]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan officials say assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June.

[Suzy Quzy]

Thank you for your critique.

[wagglebee]

My priest might differ at times, but yes.

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[Suzy Quzy]

I am SURE that your Prieast does NOT differ!!! :)

[Suzy Quzy]

I am SURE that your Priest does NOT differ!!! :)

[wagglebee]

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[mthom]

You have that right and nobody can take it away from you. Its called suicide. I dont suggest anybody do it but no law can stop it so its their business. Try to force me through my government to bless that suicide and we have a problem.

[hophead]

"Most of Kevorkian's victims were not terminally ill. "

What??? Show me. That's not how I remember his cases.

[wagglebee]

You are both right. Nobody WANTS to see a loved one suffer before death. However, odds are that every single one of us will have to endure this several times and it doesn't ever get easier. But this has also been the case throughout history and who are we to presume that God's Handiwork needs to be changed.

[glennshepard]

Natural law theory, the moral theory upon which our country was founded, says that action is immoral which hinders the quest for self-preservation, procreation, knowledge, and sociability. Furthermore, we are in many respects a paternalistic country (ie, laws requiring helmets on motorcycles). Laws against suicide are in no way conflicting with American values.

[EveningStar]

It sounds like you had what he had:

[Gondring]

I guess you aren't familiar with disabilities.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Not if they are dissabled by their terminal illness.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I agree.

We help a terminal pet die, yet when someone is terminal and is in pain that ( yes, all you medical experts) can NOT be managed...we let that person suffer.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

hardly...with your attitude.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

a pathologist IS a physician!!!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Well..that might make sense ..except that in the time of Job we didn't have all the medicine we now have and so people died quicker.

We..including christians..are already interfering BIG time with the "hour of our appointed death" with med interventions.

[Puddleglum]

Why must "terminally ill" be a requirement? If an individual, a human being, a person, has pain that he doesn't wish to endure, why must he endure it just because the government says?

What - if he kills himself then the government puts him in jail?

[lowbridge]

but Kevorkian fought for what should be a basic human right. The right to die without needless suffering.

Balderdash. Kervorkian is a monster, a serial murderer, who fought for the right to murder innocent people. If a terminally ill, or not termainally ill, person wants to end their suffering, no one is stopping them. Let them put a gun in their mouths, jump off a high cliff, take an overdose of barbituates, etc. Let them do it to themselves.

But no one has the right to call in another person to help do them in. By dragging in that other person, you're just turning that person into a murderer.

[Puddleglum]

We..including christians..are already interfering BIG time with the "hour of our appointed death" with med interventions.

I am against assisted suicide (or any suicide for that matter), but I think we ought to have doctor's giving people the most realistic prognoses possible - the cost/benefit analysis of extreme treatments. I mean, it would be helpful to know when fighting a disease is more painful and prolonging than living with it.