Comments on: Kevorkian Will Not Assist In Any Suicides

After More Than 8 Years In Prison, Kevorkian Says Assisted Suicide "Should Be Legal"

[mikealford3]

tomtomasters,
Good for you, I hope you get what you desire. I only wish you would give others the same consideration.

You call me pathetic because I'm tired of being sick. You call me pathetic because I'm tired of going to bed everynight and waking up every morning worried that my brain cancer may come back. You call me pathetic because I'm tired of having to reach into the corner of the room to retrieve my leg so I can walk. You call me pathetic because I'm tired of waking up in the morning and not remembering yesterday. You call me pathetic because I'm tired of seeing the roses in a garden and not being able to feel the softness or smell the fragrance. You call me pathetic because I am tired of waking up every morning with news that X number of children have been molested or murdered over night.

It appears you have never been faced with a truely dibilitating disease. It also appears you don't quite understand what it is to suffer.

[malomaboy06]

Who do people think they are to tell people that they do not have controll over their own life. If someone loses their will to live, no one has any right to deny them. All Kevorkian did was provide these people with a simple way to do it. He is not a murder, he is not insensitive. I woulf even argue that he is very sensitive. He is receptive to the needs of other people.

Think... If he didn't, most of those people would have found another way. What have those people (or anyone else) lost.

[rafterman1]

===No killing at all...This will disappoint the loony-left===

No, it's the right wing that has the culture of death - righties have never met a war they didn't love. Too bad they aren't as interested in fighting in them as they are in starting them.

[pwrslm]

Actually, mercy is a Christian thing. With all the new tech we have, they can seriously keep the dead alive.

Its a moral line that is pretty fuzzy.

Letting people die because they should be dead doesnt belong in a debate, its the decent thing to do.

[processor2]

CBS Headline:...Kevorkian Will Not Assist In Any Suicides


No killing at all...This will disappoint the loony-left.

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After reading these posts, liberals are definitely pro-death

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[tomtomasters]

You are such pathetic dying zombies, who have no fight left? Who do you live for? You, or for us?

I think Jack O'Lantern went to far, and should be still locked up. Maybe George Bush will hire him. George does a lot of assisted suicides, whether they want it or not. He could probably get away with it...saying he is helping Iraqis.

I will never give up...I will fight until my rotting flesh drops off and I am running like a skeleton around the track.

Pathetic cry babies....Oh...I want to die doctor, cry ku,,wa wa.... $hit!

[susanhelit]

I hope, if Dr. Kevorkian ever comes to a point where he needs that final mercy, someone will help him. It's the final decision of your life, no one should interfere with it. He's done so much good for raising awareness of the lack of humanity towards those dying.

[utena-2009]

The Hippocratic Oath, particularly its indictment to 'do no harm', is outdated.

Any treatment with a side effect is harmful. The important thing is to balance the harm with the benefits received, from the patient's point of view.

And don't forget that the Oath forbids surgery and abortion as well. It's just that most people don't know it.

[PatienceMelissa]

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I just want to say kudos to you, Dr. Kevorkian, for the care and concern you have shown for those who really needed you.

You really should be given an award for the work you have done and, in my opinion, certainly did not deserve to go to prison for your efforts.

I believe you are a truly honest and decent man.

If the time ever comes when I am really, really
sick or in a vegetative state such that I am
suffering to such a degree that I can not bear it to live any more, I would hope there would be someone just like you to help put me to rest so that I would not have to endure it any longer and would not be a burden to my family and friends.

Hopefully, that time will never come.

God bless you for trying to help.

[vinepetal904]

' ... govs like to yank enormous percentages of budgets in the name of public good, then deny funding to poor folk while spending huge chunks to arm gaurds who 'never ever get in the way of good people' as they fill prisons with those with no money ... then refuse to let 'insane people' get the hell out off this earth ... '

' ... i never understood the u.s. in world war ii ... they spent all that time spanking nazis when it was the jews along that were forcing those poor people to do what they were doing ... those jews knew *** well they come from a place of infinite eternities their every wish come true, and knew they were going back home someday ... they only come to earths like this 'cause a good eternity in hell is just a day in paradise for them ... i swear, they'll con you too into mug'n 'em, and then they'll give you flowers and cures for death and spoil your whole vacation ... '

[grammawhamma]

Oh and my husband didn't shoot himself. I'm sorry if I gave that impression. He died peacefully in my arms in our bed.

[grammawhamma]

george 2221...yes I know this. I was a hospice nurse. Read my post from 11:49 PM

[grammawhamma]

My husband always told me that if he was ever diagnosed with cancer that he would go in the woods and shoot himself. Well, the day did come when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a only few months to live. He was 54 years old and wore his seatbelt for the first time in his life that day on the way home from the doctor's office. I knew then that he wasn't going to kill himself but wanted to live. He fought the battle for four months and four days. At the very end he was ready to die.

[susanhelit]

You can starve yourself, you can hope your doctor is willing to give enough morphine that it might work, you can try to see if someone can smuggle you some drugs - but I don't see any reason why people should have to go through this - why not simply give them a shot (or a method to give themselves the shot) to end it easily, rather than having to starve over a few weeks, hope your doctor can descipher the code, or expect a family member to risk murder charges by stupid overzealous prosecutors.

Making assisted suicide legal also ensures some regulation, so it is used appropriately. Without it, some patients are no doubt helped along when they shouldn't be, and others are put through pointless torment by doctors afraid of too much pain meds leading to an accusation of murder or causing addiction.

[grammawhamma]

I'm a health care worker who cared for hospice patients. When a person is truely terminal and there is no chance of recovery "most" doctors will order enough pain medication to keep the patient fairly comfortable. Sometimes it's not enough to control pain and the dosage is gradually increased until effective. In some cases this ends up being a lethal dose. I respect the doctors that realize that there comes a point in time when we are no longer prolonging life but prolonging death.

[anyad10]

I love the interview with Jack Kevorkian, he is a great doctor doing a great thing for mankind. What is wrong with all these people thinking it is okay to let someone suffer..........we don't let even animals suffer, and they don't have a say. Wake up people........don't be so selfish and self-centered.

[shanev137]

Kevorkian should be given the Nobel Peace prize and elevated to sainthood for having to be in jail for 8 years. If any of you morons have any doubts about legalizing assisted suicide go watch a terminal cancer patient get eaten alive by cancer and plead with you on his death bed to put him out of his misery. I have never wished pain and suffering on anyone but for all these morons who don't want this to become legal, I sure hope someday you get a taste of it. Hell, we're more humane to dying dogs than we are to humans. How sick is that?

[mikealford3]

dorothydenim

I'm not sure you fully understand the desire for an assisted suicide. I understand there are plants and chemicals in this world that will kill a human being.
The act of death is not the sole focus of the act of assisted suicide. It's about dieing peacefully and without pain and suffering. Not everyone is knowledgable about the various plants and natural chemicals. Suppose a person chooses a specific plant, they may not know or in many cases they are not physically able to utilize the plant to induce death. Without knowledge of the natural chemicals a person may cause more suffering and may not die. By being assisted, there is a knowledgable person who can administer the chemicals to make the process more peaceful and successful.

A person with severe ALS could not do the research or could certainly not collect and process the plant extracts to induce the death.

[mikealford3]

dorothy, "legal suicide", that's something that confuses me. If a person commits suicide and it is illegal, who will the state charge put on trial? If suicide is illegal, why do people having living wills that order the stoppage of life support?


Teenagers who die futiley as cannon fodder in Iraq are stupidly called "heros".
Posted by chaimschmeel at 10:28 PM : Jun 03, 2007

"Stupidly" What is stupid about calling an American who is defending whoever and dies in his duty, a hero? The men and women who are serving in our military are all heros. They put on a uniform and vow to defend our freedom with their life, what is not heroic about that.

I realize this war in Iraq is wrong, however that is the fault of our government. The brave men and women on the ground in Iraq are doing their jobs as they have been ordered to do and that is HEROIC.

[dorothyblu2]

It is not necessary to suffer forever;please see the post about "googling natural or plant poisons"on the web.