Why doesn't everybody stop the emotional outbursts and read up on what this ghoul Kevorkian really did. (BTW--he was a pathologist, not a physician.)
Kevorkian has always been obsessed with death and dying. (He admitted to being "intrigued" watching life pass out of a person.) And many of the "patients" (mostly women) who took his fatal cocktail weren't even sick, let alone terminal.
Kevorkian is depraved. His should not be held up as an example of achieving "death with dignity."
Scar,
You will notice downthread I posted a post with much of your sentiment.
That's the problem with Kervorkian, he's a creep and hardly any hard-working champion of the dead and dying.
This fact played a big part in why they went after this guy and locked him the hell up.
He's a perverted weirdo and he managed to fool the public by donning a mantle of pure and sweet humanity. While the whole time he was no damn better than the BTK murderer.
And did much the same stuff as the BTK killer, I might add.
It is my opinion that suicide is not necessarily an act of cowardice, and I have other reasons to hold Suzy Quzy in low regard. But thanks for chiming in anyway.
a pathologist IS a physician!!!
Well said. Kevorkian is nothing more than a serial killer who gets a bang out of offing folks.
Okay, I did. And I find that you're full of BULLONEY!
He is a physician. He also got his board certification in pathology (licensed in Pathological Anatomy by 1960, and in Clinical Pathology in 1965).
He graduated from U of Mich medical school in 1952 and did internship in pathology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (this is where his inspiration to find ways to relieve the suffering of his patients started--when he observed the horrific pain in terminal patient dying of cancer).
"The patient was a helplessly immobile woman of middle age, her entire body jaundiced to an intense yellow-brown, skin stretched paper-thin over a fluid-filled abdomen swollen to four or five times normal size. The rest of her was an emaciated skeleton: sagging, discolored skin covered her bones like a cheap, wrinkled frock.
"The poor wretch stared up at me with yellow eyeballs sunken in their atrophic sockets. Her yellow teeth were ringed by chapping and parched lips to form an involuntary, almost sardonic 'smile' of death. It seemed as though she was pleading for help and death at the same time. Out of sheer empathy alone I could have helped her die with satisfaction. From that moment on, I was sure that doctor-assisted euthanasia and suicide are and always were ethical, no matter what anyone says or thinks."
The Korean War interrupted his career--he served honorably as an Army medical officer--but he completed residencies at Pontiac General Hospital, Detroit Receiving, and the University of Michigan Medical Center.
And when Vietnam came along, Dr. Kevorkian suggested research into battlefield transfusions from KIA casualties to wounded comrades. But he became very disillusioned when bureaucrats were more concerned with the "creepiness factor" than saving lives and denied his research proposal.
Exactly.
My heart goes out to those who watched their loved ones suffer. But Kevorkian was not about easing the pain of the terminally ill.
He is a sicko.
Kevorkian and his minions of death should not be released on the world just because an incompetent doctor did not aleviate someone's pain.
Actually, Kavorkian is also or WAS ALSO workign with Death Row inmates some years ago to get them to donate their organs upon death, thereby saving many lives.