Murder is one thing.
When a person is being kept alive, with no hope of a cure, no hope of recovery ... and pleads with you to allow them to die.... what do you do?
Do you walk away and pretend you didn’t hear them?
Dr. Kevorkian had people COME TO HIM, who were dying; and he showed them how they could exit, on their terms, and set up his machine such they could activate it - when they were ready.
There is a huge difference between walking into a hospital, and deciding who is going to die; and assisting a person with terminating their life. One choice is involuntary, the other is simply helping a person perform a task that they are phyically incapable of performing now.
100% of Murder victims are unwilling victims. 100% of the patients Dr. Kevorkian assisted, came to him for help.
We both know, that if you were in a car accident this afternoon; and your brain was ‘dead’; the Doctors could keep your body functioning for years, depleting your retirement and insurance benefits to the point that your wife and kids would be homeless and in poverty; and you would still be dead.
I realize that liberals don’t like the idea that words mean things, but they really do. What you’re advocating is called “murder” for a reason. Because it is murder.
If you have access to Free Republic, then you have access to various search engines. There is no excuse for the ignorance you claim to possess. Before you support someone 100%, you should familiarize yourself with what it is you’re supporting. I think you already have. I think you already know that he was a mass murderer. But let’s pretend for a moment that you’re honestly as ignorant as you claim to be. Plug his name into any search engine, and start reading.
Anyone capable of getting TO Kevorkian, was capable enough to end their own life if they really wanted to.
There is no such thing as assisted suicide. You help kill someone, it's murder and you become a murderer.
Kevorkian was a ghoul who was fixated on the process of death since he was in med school. His alleged humanitarian effort to aid terminally ill patients in their own deaths was just a front for him to be present so that he could personally observe the final seconds of his hapless victims lives and stare into their eyes as their souls left their bodies........
Assisted suicide was nothing more than a convenient "fix" for this man who was addicted to death........