There was NO public support for saving her, on that you are obviously right. In fact most of the American people seemed to want her dead. In retrospect, I think if Jebbie had found a way to save her, he would be the 2012 nominee in waiting. Most of the people never understood the case because of faulty media coverage.
I think you’re very right. The media coverage was slanted against her from the start.
God only knows why the media wanted her dead, but then, I’ve never understood why it is always the well-off, comfortable, supposedly educated class who are so in favor of killing off people - including themselves. I think you’d find that most of Kevorkian’s clients came from this group.
Perhaps it’s because they don’t believe in anything, particularly in the future. They think that once they can’t go out and be masters of the universe, life isn’t worth living. And therefore they don’t care about other people’s lives, either, and in fact it sort of annoys them that “lesser beings” (meaning the elderly, the sick, the poor) want to live.
“In fact most of the American people seemed to want her dead.”
That’s because most Americans didn’t hear the entire story.