Comments on: Kevorkian Will Not Assist In Any Suicides

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

[feelfree1]

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[osharulz]

hey doc,
what ever happened to "DO NO HARM"?

[jaybee310]

I respect everyone's right to opinion, but I don't know that any one of us if faced with some horrible disease, forced to exist only with pain, misery, loss of the ability to function as we want to function... wouldn't pray for help for it to end quickly. Now, if you choose to lay in your bed in pain and just wait it out, good for you! But, some of us aren't that strong. It's NOT murder, it's SUICIDE. It's for you to take up with your God when you see him.

[snunuman]

I hope someday very very soon Judge Cooper is diagnosed with a dibilataing, terminal, painful illness...maybe then she'll appreciate the good doctor! We don't let our pets suffer, why should our loved ones have to?

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by mikealford3 at 03:50 PM : Jun 03, 2007


HiYa' Mike, Same here, cirrhosis. fun 'n games huh? I am comfortable though and know where I am headed. Lookin' forward to it really, but not rushing it.

[mikealford3]

So many opinions, obviously many are different. Why can't we accept that each person should have the choice? mennowomen, I respect your opinion and desire to have your mother around, however have you thought at all about what those extra days cost her in terms of suffering?

I have a much different view than many, because I know what's going to kill me. I have brain cancer, thankfully it is stable and no signs of advancement for now. However, I am at peace with the fact I am going to eventually die. As a patient, I would rather die than have my mother and father watch me suffer and they understand that.

I also believe there is a heaven. I believe heaven is a wonderful place and I know that here on earth there is so much fighting & war & hate & other bad things, so what's so wrong with dieing?

[mennowoman]

There is a big difference between mercy and what "Dr. Death" did.

Kevorkian didn't screen his "patients" to determine if they were actually terminal, he just took their word for it. He didn't screen them for depression, either. He was so eager to get publicity for himself that he just killed anyone who came along.

Forensic doctors have reviewed the cases of 40 of the 130 people who died at Kevorkian's hands, and only a handful of them were terminal with no hope of treatment. One of them, a woman who had been newly diagnosed with MS, didn't even have debilitating symptoms. She went to Kevorkian at the urging of her husband, who admitted that he dreaded having to care for his wife in her declining years. She probably had at least 10 more decent years, according to doctors, before she could have been considered terminal.

Mercy would have been to ease the pain and the fears of those people, to help them live every day to the fullest and best. To manage their care so they could have quality time with their families.

My mother died from a lingering illness, and she was in quite a lot of pain. The fact that she was dying brought us together in love and emotional intimacy deeper than any we had ever experienced. If she had ended her life and cheated us out of those times, I, and my whole family, would be much poorer for it.

Mercy is to take care of the ill and injured. Barbarianism is to kill the ill and injured.

[ylive]

Why be so selfish?? in each situation, when people are trying to make their case they talk about how something helped, them or the family.. Why not focus on the pain of the person feeling it, the ill person. That is the reason why we honor those we love and treat them right while they are alive so that at the time of their death, we are not still leaching off them and burden them with our needs...as many do.. Sorry but there's no other way to say it. A lingering death can bring some together but it also tears others apart which can add to the ill person's pain and suferring.

[clcousins-2009]

Dr. Kervorkain is fighting a lonely battle. One of your listeners compared him to a serial killer. How ludicrous. The victim of a serial killer has no choice about how or when he dies. Every one of Dr. Kervorkain's "patients" chose when and how to die. Some whould argue that we are interferring with "Gods Plan." Every time a surgeon removes an infected appendix we are interferring with "God's Plan." Why is it all right to interfere if we are helping someone live, and not OK if we are helping them end pain and suffering, with their consent. I would hope that one day we will evolve to the point where we allow individuals to make their own choice about personal matters like this.

[larry0091]

I don't think so. He won't admit it though. If anything, he's gotten even more sure about it in prison. Won't admit it though, not to us anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if one day in the future, if the circumstances lend themselves, he'll once again be compelled to . . . assist. Try and be more clever this time doctor. Don't help them get you again. I've always supported the good doctor and feel history, in time, will judge him kindly.

[antoniof123]

OK.