Agreed. Especially terminally ill patients.
I never liked his methods or his need for press, but Kevorkian fought for what should be a basic human right. The right to die without needless suffering.
Most of Kevorkian's victims were not terminally ill.
The problem is once you start down that road, what constitutes being "terminally ill" will be defined down.
I'll never fight to deny a terminally-ill adult the right to die with dignity.
I'm with you. My father died screaming because the doctors told me they couldn't give him any more morphine without killing him. They moved him into a private room so he wouldn't disturb the other patients and staff.
BUMP. Well said.
And often, that requires the assistance of someone else. Many patients are overly optimistic about what they will be able to do as they decline, and end up being unable to carry out their preferences without help of another.
Also, there are many disabled persons who require the assistance of others in their other activities. There should be similar allowance for this one.
Lunatic Fringe>Agreed. Especially terminally ill patients.
I never liked his methods or his need for press, but Kevorkian fought for what should be a basic human right. The right to die without needless suffering.
Yes, Kevorkian seems to be a very sick man, and although he fought for a good cause, his methods and reasons were seemingly misguided.
One of society's biggest problems today is the lack of respect for individuals and their rights and preferences and desires. It's sad to see people supporting the idea that government or other people know better than the individual, on an issue as personal as when and how to die.
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.
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.
Kevorkian was a ghoul obsessed with death as evidenced by his actions and writings while still in college and the crap he painted throughout his life.
I equate him to a nymphomaniac prostitute who says she does what she does only because she needs the money.......
Living in Michigan, I followed the entire saga of Doctor death closely and came to two conclusions about him:
1. He was never interested in a persons right to die but was advocating a doctors right to kill.
2. He was a demented publicity hound. It got so bad that you could almost predict the next assisted suicide. As soon as the story of the previous assisted suicide was no longer front page news, the next one occured.