Posted on 03/26/2008 5:09:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, longtime hosts of the chatty television program "The View," praised Jack Kevorkian in a recent episode. Following news that Kevorkian has planned a Congressional bid, they praised him for killing more than 130 people in assisted suicides and murdering a disabled patient.
Kevorkian, a convicted murderer and assisted suicide crusader, made his candidacy for a Detroit-area Congressional seat official on Monday.
Justin McCarthy, a news analyst at Media Research Center, noted the comments from "The View" hosts in a recent post on MRC's blog Newsbusters.
Goldberg said she’s a "big fan" of Kevorkian "because he believed that he could help people who were in, in a place where no one was helping them."
"Euthanasia, like race, is one of those things nobody wants to talk about. It makes people very uncomfortable. I think euthanasia is, is an important thing and it should be there for people to make that decision if they chose to," she said.
Goldberg did not mention her belief about involuntary euthanasia, where patients are frequently killed by family members or medical staff without their knowledge or consent.
Joy Behar wondered: "Why is he a bad guy? I don't understand it...it’s over my head somewhere."
She went further than Goldberg in defending Kevorkian's killing a disabled patient.
Kevorkian has admitted to killing more than 130 people, including the televised death of Thomas Youk, netting him a 25-year prison sentence.
"He helped a guy who had Lou Gehrig’s disease, take himself out of this world because the guy was in excruciating terror," Behar said in defending the murder that landed Kevorkian in jail for several years before his parole.
"The thing about Kevorkian is that I don't consider him a bad guy," she concluded.
During the show, Sherri Shepherd cracked a few crass jokes -- most notably about how Kevorkian could help presidential candidate John McCain with "an exit strategy."
As is typically the case, pro-life host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was the only one to speak up for the moral or ethical position on the bioethics question.
"The lines get blurry if you're dealing with someone who’s life is almost in control, in someone else’s hands," she said. "You know, there are a lot of things. There are a lot of gray areas in that whole conversation."
Hasslebeck said she was worried about people who have control of the finances of a patient wanting to end their lives in order to inherit their possessions.
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Brings a whole new image to makin’ whoopie and jumping for joy. Now I can’t get that horrible thought out of my mind.
LMAO!
I do not advocate him assisting people. But I often talk about getting the “Kevorkian drip” when it’s my time to go.
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It is indeed.
Jack is a joke, too, a joke on our decency. He is a classic serial killer who loves, is obsessed, with his craft and it inflates him with pride and lust for power. You can see it in his pictures. I would not wish to imagine his expression as he sent his subjects to the netherworld.
Why the "Kevorkian drip" and not the "Auschwitz Zyklon B" or the "OJ knife"? Perhaps just a hairdryer in the bathtub or really go all out and build a guillotine.
I'm just curious, how does a person decide what method will be most dramatic? I would think at times like this, flamboyance would be paramount; after all, if someone is going to exude selfishness, they don't want there to be any lingering beliefs that they might care about others.
IIRC, he was released from prison because he wasn’t healthy enough to stay there. Now that his health seems to have returned, I see no reason why he can’t go back and complete his sentence.
I can only imagine some of his subjects couldn't complete their sentences, "Butttt, stop........."
He just beams. It must really touch his heart really get into his pleasures.
It touches the hearts of his subjects, too.
Why not do something really spectacular like jump out of a hot air balloon into a crowded event? It seems rather pointless to have so much hubris and not let everyone know it.
And yet she was in pain. I understand your distress and I seriously wonder whether this was a kind of palliative-care-malpractice on the part of the hospice.
It was at leat 25 years ago that Dr. Jose Espinosa, an expert in geriatric and terminal cancer care, testified that in all his years of practice " --- but he had seen "intractable doctors and nurses."
And if this was true 25 years ago, I daresay it's even more true now: acupuncture, narcotics, and other pain relief exists which can truly eliminate severe pain in terminal patients. (I say "in terminal patients" because some of these measures would cause side-effects which would not be acceptable for non-terminal patients --- for instance, a pain med that destroys liver function in 8 months --- whereas that is perfectly appropriate for a person who has not that long to live.)
I have heard that some doctors hesitate to- give "cocktails" of narcotic meds at effective doses because they are afraid of legal scrutiny of their use of controlled substances.
In any case, it makes me angry that there are hospices which lag behind in effective comfort care. Here's a good thing to read: the article on the left side of the page about better approaches to end-of-life care.
It's a deal.
Some 30,000 Americans commit suicide every year, without manipulatively dragging our major medical, legal, and political structures into it for "assistance" or "permission."
I would argue that it's a wicked and/or a pathetic thing to commit suicide "freelance" --- though who can judge in the case of the clinically depressed or otherwise impaired? But that doesn't even compare to the rotten evil of "legal" or "assisted" suicide where you manipulate and corrupt your own friends and family, and the major institutions of society, as your accomplices.
Doctors, nurses, and hospice workers should not be pulled into the picture as accessories to the deed, because they are, and should be, unalterably committed to the patient's health: and nobody is healthier dead.
Lawyers, judges, and politicians should not be implicated in suicide because they're supposed to be dedicated to our rights and liberties, and death effectively snuffs ALL rights and all liberties.
I have never quite understood why those would-be suicides who say their #1 value is personal autonomy, don't just do it --- like those other 30,000 self-respectng autonomous suicides* --- and leave the rest of us out of it.
* (Hoping the irony here is apparent.)
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