Comments on: Jack Kevorkian Is Out Of Prison

Doctor Served 8 Years For Helping Man Commit Suicide; Says He Won't Again

[phoenix1218]

I think if we are to have assisted suicide laws that there should definately be some guidlines set up and the #1 rules should be that the patient MUST be terminal, #2 should be that they have exhausted ALL measures.

[phoenix1218]

I think that euthanasia laws do need to be enacted. I think Dr. K should have gotten some form of punishment for taunting the authorities the way he did by recording the asst. suicide of the ALS patient and sending it in. He should have KNOWN something would happen to him at that point. they ahd been trying for YEARS, albeit unsuccesfully, to punish him and he agve them the ammunition to do so.

[randalds]

We can't just kill everyone who wants to die or most of us would not make it to 20.

How will we monitor these desisions and what will be the appeal process?
Posted by pudd54 at 01:20 PM : Jun 01, 2007

I disagree. The right to die is the ultimate human right and it should apply to anyone who wants it, at any age and in any health condition. If I decide that my quality of life is not what I want it to be, for any reason, then I have a right to end it. It's my life to live or not to, as I see fit.

[phoenix1218]

TN (Trigeminal Neuralgia) is a pain that's described as 1 of the most acute pain known to mankind. TN produces excruciating, lightning strikes of facial pain, near the nose, lips, eyes & ears. By many, it's called the "suicide disease". The disorder usually affects 1 side of the face, but some patients experience pain at different times on both sides. Something as simple & routine as brushing teeth, applying makeup or a slight breeze can trigger an attack, that results in agony for the individual. TN isn't fatal, but is considered to be the most painful affliction known to medical practice.

[thgdriver]

The man unfortunately is ahead of his time. The time will come when this is perfectly legal.

We had an elderly couple in town who were very sick, they were in their 80's as I understand, anyhow, they went to a lovers lane that overlooks the city and after he shot her with a shotgun he turned it on himself. Thjey left a not telling of their suffering and decided on this suicide pact.

Now, I ask whats better, the help that Jack offered or the alternative true story above?

[phoenix1218]

I want to make a little comparison here...It is not legally okay to assist someone ~a terminally ill person who is in a lot of pain~ to end their life in a dignified way even though this terminally ill patient has free will and can choose to do this or not to do this YET it IS okay to put down an animal ~who has no say~ even though they are NOT terminally ill. Does that seem fair to make the terminally ill human suffer needlessly and to put down an innocent animal all because their owner probably cannot afford to keep them anymore or just doesn't want them anymore.

[jesika4]

superchez1

Enough Said and that's why you're going to hell...

[ubikvalis2]

Dr. Kervorkian is a hero.

Insane amounts of money are spent keeping terminally ill patient alive in their last months or weeks of life. Wouldn't that money be better spent on a sick, uninsured child or non-terminal patient who could enjoy decades of full health?

The medical system LOVES these kinds of patients. They require EXTREMELY expensive care and yet if they die, they are terminal so there is no liability, impossible to make a mistake!

Hospitals and doctors make a small fortune, right to lifers get to bring out their "life at any cost" attitudes and the patient greatly suffers.

We need sensible euthanasia laws now!

[pudd54]

Here is my entire post.

He went to prison for helping an ALS patient end his life. It is just wrong to punish him for that. However, he also helped a fat nurse who's worse diagnosis was fibromyalgia kill herself, which I disagree with. We can't just kill everyone who wants to die or most of us would not make it to 20.

How will we monitor these desisions and what will be the appeal process?

[sy2502]

Our life and our body is the one and only thing we can call truly ours. Why shouldn't we be allowed to do what we want with it? Why force some who doesn't want to live to stay alive? Counsel them to see if they may change their mind, but if they still want to die, the most charitable thing we can do is a mean to do it in a dignified and painless way.

[oeangus]

We can't just kill everyone who wants to die or most of us would not make it to 20.

Posted by pudd54 at 12:26 PM : Jun 01, 2007

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Ha-ha! :)

Now please%u2026 let me go back to trying to forget those years of my life ever existed!

[ralan40]

80% of medicare is paid out to people in the last 2 weeks of their lives.

We now have the ability to let people linger and suffer under circumstances that are not natural.
This isn't just about helping someone kill themselves, this is allowing a person to end their suffering if they are suffering, terminal,and choose to do so.
Anyone who doesn't think some of this isn't already happening secretly needs a wakeup call.

[amw1625]

If you feel strongly about this subject, write your Senators and Congressmen rather than posting here. It's very important that this need not die with Dr. Kevorkian (no pun intended). He can't be the only one taking a stand.

[pudd54]

He went to prison for helping an ALS patient die. It was just wrong to punish him for that. However, he also helped a fat nurse who's worse diagnosis was fibromyalgia kill herself, which I disagree with. We can't just kill everyone who wants to die or most of us would not make it to 20.

How will we monitor it and what will be the appeal process?

[arakaczky]

Has anyone tumbled to the fact that Dr. Kevorkian's method might just be more humane than the current method of executing the people on the various Death Rows? Whatever. I do agree with his philosophy and with most of the posters here. Why are we more humane to our animals than to our fellow man?

[pared1]

Welcome back Jack. Did you get that list I sent you for assisted deaths? (reminder)

Al Sharpton
J Jackson
Oprah if you feel frisky
And could you kill all those lame "reality"? shows?

LOL

[bacardistuff]

This man should never have gone to prison. I hope he lives long enough to fully enjoy the "outside."

[tomar0317]

I think the good doctor is right. Mercy deaths are a necessity to help those suffering through painful illnesses and deaths. The laws need to be changed, the right to die by choice is humane.

[dollybaird]

Congratulations on your early release, I personally felt you should have never been convicted.

Isn't it funny we are more humane to our animals than we are to human life, we don't want to see our animals suffer so we put them to sleep but we are supposed to watch family members suffer, Dr. Kevorkian you did the right thing!

[courtneyo2]

WWJ Newsradio 950 in Detroit has a great page dedicated to this...

http://www.wwj.com/pages/529426.php?