'Dr Death' Kevorkian released from jail; helped suicides (Roundup)
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Jun 1, 2007, 15:43 GMT
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i wonder if these politicians and religious leaders will be singing a different tune when they're suffering and in pain dying from a terminal illness. if they'll still think they should stay alive and suffer just to make the media, religious groups, and politicians feel better about themselves, all while they are the ones suffering. these people talk of dying with dignity, but is allowing a person to starve to death better than just assisting them in their death? just so they can wipe their hands and say they didn't 'kill' the person? give me a break. if your suffering, in pain, sick and dying.... shouldn't you have the right to die with dignity by allowing it to end peacefully and painlessly by the hands of medical doctors, not politicians, religious groups, and the media?
my guess is the people that considered him 'murdering' the man with lou geigrigs never knew anyone suffering from such a disease.
wonder if he has bush's address???
The SOB is getting poor Amewrica boys getting slaughtered, but none from his own family.
HE DOES NOT HAVE TO SEEK HIS HELP, AS HE IS A KILLER NOT SUICIDER
I think it's a shame this man was jailed in the first place. Hearing relatives of those who committed suicide whine is really pitiful. I mean, the reality of the situation is people who willingly wanted to die committed suicide, this man is completely innocent, if not to be commended for his human compassion. The 'victims'' relatives just want someone to blame for their selfish loss.
If I were terminally ill, and/or were a complete vegetable, I would want someone to help me die. I'd hate to live if it meant someone had to feed me, bathe me, change me and clean me. I think there is nothing more humbling than having someone clean your ass, once being able to. If my family forced me to live under these conditions, I'd say they don't love me if they don't give a fuck about what I feel; they are being unthinking and selfish.
I'd want someone to help me go peacefully, and no moralist or religious kook better stand in my way, for if I had the strength I'd rip them to shreds.
Well I am glad he is out. In my opinion, he was doing honest things, helping people overcome their pain. I mean, it doesn't seem like murder if they willingly signed a consent form.
i live near the dr..and the only reason he went to prison was politics and
to make a statement..that in my opion didn't mean shit...
The people who put him in jail obviously never had to watch a family member die slowly from inoperable bone cancer. Every person has the right to choose what his 'victims' did. He did nothing wrong but help people who didn't know how many pain pills to take all by themselves. If they were to get the number wrong, (10 pills? 20 pills? Who knows?) they'd have their stomachs pumped, and be forced to go through mental therapy locked in a room, and they'd still be suffering and dying! Pathetic our society is so cruel to the sick and helpless.
I personally do not believe in assisted suicide, as I feel it is biblically wrong, and I am a BA Christian. . Having said that, however, I also do not believe in legislating morality.
Assisted suicide should be limited to people who are completely mentally competent (as all of Dr K's patients were). Assuming mental competence, there is no reason why our judicial system should have anything to do with this.
I feel that anyone who follows through with any form of suicide will have a reckoning when they meet their Maker, but God gave us free will, and that should be their choice to make.
There are many people that help other people sin and fall short, but it is neither my place nor my government’s place to tell these people how to live their lives, as long as they do not harm innocent people.
I am a liberal Dem from NY. No faith, but Catholic background.
Thank God people like you can still exist! Funny how I have no faith but I thank God... Thank you for understanding what the true ideals religion is supposed to be based in.
JC
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The doctor and HYPOCRICYJun 1st, 2007 - 16:32:03
The doctor is honest for what he says and what he does. The usual Christian hypocricy is to do something different and do different. Every government from state to that of any western country, is anti-poor and anti-organised people. If someone does it honestly, then he gets to be known with all denegrated names and titles.
HONESTLY LOOK AT ANY STATE OR FESERAL LAWS OF US, UK, OR OTHER COUNTRIES THE POOR AND NON ORGANISED PEOPLE HAVE NO VOICE OR SAY.
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