Comments on: Jack Kevorkian Is Out Of Prison

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

[sy2502]

I agree with RandalDS, it is your life, you are the one and only person qualified to say whether it should continue or not. In Switzerland, the doctor gives you enough pills to kill yourself and a glass of water, after that it's up to you to take them or not. The idea is that it is a lot more compassionate to let you go to sleep and never wake up than blow your brains off or jump off a bridge.

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Based on the comments in this section and in the abortion articles,
Liberals are definitely pro-death.
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Posted by processor2 at 02:34 PM : Jun 01, 2007

Your god is the one that invented death, buddy!
Death is part of nature, there is nothing wrong with it, nothing to be afraid of. To me the only life worth living is a meaningful one. I would rather have no life at all than a miserable existence of suffering.

[noplace2poop]

Guess who the so called Christian Crusaders were that went around killing people in the years of 1095 until 1291 if anyone refused to join the so called Catholic church?! They were Catholics!!! They were NOT Christians! These people give Christianity a BAD REPUTATION! Jesus told us to LOVE our enemies and to be good to them!

[randalds]

Posted by witzlaw at 02:52 PM : Jun 01, 2007

Well for me the right to suicide is an absolute right, even if it involves assistance from another person and even if the person dying has no medical problems whatsoever. The "at any age" part was perhaps stated a bit too broadly. What I really meant was any person who is legally an adult and I included it because some people think that only the elderly or the infirm are being talked about in this. Obviously if a person is not able to make their own decisions then they should not have that right unless of course they've stated it in a form of living will.

[noplace2poop]

Ask a Catholic what they're talking about when they speak of the "Immaculate Conception". Most people misunderstand this and they think Catholics believe that it means that Mary gave birth to Jesus as a virgin. But that's not what it means to Catholics! Catholics believe that it has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. Catholics believe that the "Immaculate Conception" is all about the birth of Mary!? Catholics say that God told them that Mary was preserved by an Immaculate Conception when she was conceived in her mother%u2019s body and was miraculously free from the pollution of sin inherited from Adam. They say that she was in soul and body holy, sinless, stainless and of pure innocence for her entire life!!! They believe that Mary never sinned and that she is not only EQUAL to Jesus but that she actually rules over Jesus. Catholics also believe that God told their pope that Mary was a virgin all of her life, although it's written in history (and in the Bible) that she had three or four other children besides Jesus. Catholics make up the rules as they go along. As bad as Muslims are, Catholics are much worse......MUCH WORSE, indeed!!!"

Everything that I've said here is written down in the Roman Catholic Catechism doctrine. Look it up for yourself! If any Catholic ever disagrees with this doctrine, their church government will declare them to be damned and they will be excommunicated. Either agree with them or YOU'RE OUT!!!

[witzlaw]

RandalDS writes,

...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.

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For the person who actually commits suicide, the legality or illegality of the act is moot, because by definition, the person is dead. So the question of "right to die" is a misnomer in that regard. The question is whether someone else, a third party, whether it is a doctor or someone else, has the right to commit the act on behalf of the patient. To me, the idea that such a person can acquire the right is utterly frightening.

Actually, I also disagree with the premise that anyone has the right to die at any age. Are you saying that children should be able to jump out a window when they want to? How about teens? How about older persons without the requisite mental capacity (and have not by that point signed a living will or power of atty.)? --SJR

[noplace2poop]

"superchez1" says,
"The Catholics in this country are not much better than the Muslims."

"noplace2poop" says,
"Catholics are MUCH WORSE than the Muslims! Muslims believe that they are praying to God....Catholics knowingly pray to statues, images and pictures of Mary & the saints. These pagans also pray to (and for) dead people, such as the saints who lived more than 2000 years ago. Muslims believe SOME of the Bible but Catholics will readily tell you that they don't follow the doctrine of the Bible. They say that their pope and their church government tell them what God wants them to do--not the Bible! They pray to Mary (they also call her the "Queen of Heaven") because they believe God and Jesus will do exactly what Mary asks them to do. People were worshiping the so called "Queen of Heaven" more than 1000 years before the birth of Jesus. Catholics are pagans, not Christians.

[marcodele]

Most of the neocon nutjobs on this site are ignoring the fact that Dr. Kevorkian only attended to people who were terminally ill and
REQUESTED his services.

The abortion debate has no place here.

And if liberals are "pro death" why are all the conservatives encouraging more deaths in Iraq?

[rushman71]

superchez1: You prove to us that Jesus is a fairytale and I will prove to you that you are a fairytale! Now, step down and shut up!

[processor2]

Based on the comments in this section and in the abortion articles,

Liberals are definitely pro-death.

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[processor2]

Based on the comments in this section and in the abortion articles,

Liberals are definitely pro-death.

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