Posted on 09/03/2007 12:31:29 PM PDT by wagglebee
Oh I read your responses.
"Dr. K offers what is really not a solution, but to the sick and dying it is the only solution they have if they don’t get pain treatment" - Recovering Ex-hippie
No, but college kids haven’t looked at all this.
Why would you expose anyone to beliefs that you know to be wrong?
Get that beauty rest!
I can’t! I have that nagging question, that just HAS to be answered. If you were on stage with Kevorkian, would you debate him, or agree with him?
I am interested in discussing the issues. he has already been convicted...so? there would have been many ways to deal with this at the college other than the way they are doing this.they could have asked for him not to be paid, or asked that he be only on with others.
I would take a really good debator with me and try to convey to the college kids WHY Dr. K’s solution the way he did this was not right.
And to bring up other issues, like pain managment. I would bring up the fact that in Oregon where they gave terminal people medication they could take, if they wanted to at the end...the reality was maybe .05 percent actually took the medicine. That would bring up the issue of how do we deal with people’s fears and pain and depression? And which end of life treatments, including spiritual, are the MOST helpful that avoid having people to end their life.
I think you would of let Richard Speck teach sex education if he was paroled.
Because the beliefs are out there all around us. It is my duty as a moral person to address these beliefs with young people....I am sure you would do the same if a young person asked about soemthing you did not agree with morally.
I agree, we must address what we know is immoral. That does not mean that we should willingly (and for a very large fee) expose people to those we know to be immoral.
the issues are not the same.
and Dr. k should not be paid and not allowed to teach...but he should be allowed to speak.
I do see your point there. I would not want Kevorkian to be paid or to be allowed up there alone.
the point I would make, is if someone is so terminal and in pain, they should be allowed as much pain med, even if it hastens death. I agree about the slippery slope and THAT is the strongest point I would want to make with young people!
But that is exactly what the university plans. They are paying him $50K to give a speech to which there will be no rebuttal (and if this university is like many others, Dr. Death will no doubt have many admirers among the faculty).
To a college who pays him with taxpayer money? That the issue my friend.
Well yeah, I can agree with that. Sometimes palliative care involves increased dosage of pain medication.
And so long as this is done gradually and properly the patient will develop a tolerance to the increased dosages and not die.
However, the point still remains that some of the people who Kevorkian killed suffered from depression, which is not physically painful and generally treatable.
; )
You should go eat an omelet or something! :-)
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