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Gaspode
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The question is who owns your life?
Political despots say they do, you can't commit suicide but they can kill you.
Religious nuts say their god does, and may kill you if you disagree.
Kevorkian says you own your own life, and was slapped down by a butch judge for threatening the awful power of the state over human rights. |
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cat14675
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If I knew with 100% certainty that I was fixing to die, and the suffering had already started, and everyone knew that I was going to get much worse, I would want Dr Kevorkian as my guest in my home. |
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al_sparagus
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He is a very brave man, he stood up the Christian extremists who try to control our government and try to make all life sacred no matter how bad the quality is.
He is a hero. |
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slim
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great guy, did some great work for those that were in need of his services. I hope I'm never in that position where I'm living in pain , dragging everyone down with me.. just put me to sleep.
I bow to what he stood for. |
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khhsmom
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More power to him!!! I strongly believe we should have a right to die if we are suffering! We do it to our beloved animals if we know they are in pain, don't we? |
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Hoptoad City
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he helped a lot of very sick people. He is truely a visionary. A persons right to live or die will be enacted, just maybe not for a couple more decades. |
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TheEconomist
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People should be able to choose suicide. Any law against this is legislating morality, not equitibility. Regardless of this, Dr. kevorkian did break the law, so it's not wrong that he was imprisoned. I hope his plight raises awareness of the need for legal euthanasia. |
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Mama Kimba
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i think he's doing a service to people that are terminally ill, and want to rid themselves of their misery, but don't have the means to kill themselves.
he shouldn't be punished. |
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larry s
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i think Dr Kevorkian is sincere in his beliefs and concerns to help people that are suffering from horrible, painful, incurable diseases. I know if I had one of those diseases I would gladly accept his help to terminate the pain and suffering.
I think it inhumane to force people to 'live' with those types of diseases. |
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Moondog
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I'm just dying to meet him. |
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Susie D
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I will never understand why people cannot grasp that a human being deserves at minimum the same respect we would give Rover - and that would be to end their suffering when there is nothing more that can be done for them. I had an aging great dane who was suffering every day - we tried medication after medication to no avail. He was in constant pain - in the end my vet and myself made the decision it was best to end his suffering and put him down. If my mother was suffering the same fate and nothing would help her there is no recourse for her - she must suffer.
How in the hell is that right that a dog has more rights than a human?
Dr. K had it right - people have the right to make the determination NOT to live in suffering. |
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Dungeon Master
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I Like that he wants to end peoples suffering. If you are against suicide you wont like him. If you ever seen a loved one suffering from stomach cancer and nothing could ease their pain you would understand why he did what he did. I support the right to live and die in dignity. Dr. K is alright in my book even if he seems a little creepy. |
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sway_26
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He provided a service to people who chose their fate. Not something I could do, but I couldnt ever imagine having to live with a termial illness that left me in agonizing pain either.
To the person below me, I am a Christian Conservative. And I have no problem with what he was doing.
Cheers and thanks for the assumption. |
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Darth Vader
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A man buys and smokes toxic cigarettes. He is ingesting poison, sold by a company, who makes a profit from this slow form of assisted suicide. The smoker is not dying from some incurable painful disease.
Why are tobacco corporation executives permitted to engage in assisted suicide?
Nobody is arresting them.
Mercy killings, and assisted suicides are commonplace in war. |
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words_smith_4u
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It so happened that while Dr Kevorkian was in the press, I had a family member going through the final stages of a terminal disease. My opinion is then slanted. We have created medicine that prolongs life but does not add to the quality of life. Life is (I believe) nothing if there is no quality. As I was losing my family member, they pleaded with me to 'give them a shot' to end it all.
Dr Kevorkian was over zealous and thus was 'caught' - on 60 minutes. What he did to willing, competent, terminally ill patients was to allow them to end their life in THEIR time, when THEY were still in control, and able to give their families a final gift of NOT endless suffering. I hope that one day, America will allow us to empower each of us to determine the time and manner of our death - when faced with a disease that slowly, and inevitably destroys us. |
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elgüero
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I'm pro right to die-but that dude creeps even me out, he seems to have an unhealthy desire to be the person involved in all of those cases of euthanasia.
Is Kimpetuous being Ironic? I hope she never gets a degenerative nerve disease. |
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kimpetuous
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I think we should force everyone to live, whether they like it or not. If everyone just believed in god................................... |
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brian
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he seems so shocked that he gets arrested for breaking the law... |
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nature lover
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Old news, and hopefully he's learned his lesson |
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cybersharque
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Murderer. Serial killer. Look at the people he killed. Mostly middle-aged and younger women with terminal conditions but none of them end-stage. Depressed as all get-out, obviously since they wished to die, but if he had counseled them about living through adversity instead of killing them, the world would be different today. |
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John W
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Why he chose to help people kill themselves is beyond me. He's got his argument, but I still think he's a little nuts. Of course, his machine was triggered by the folks, not him...well until the last one- he pushed the button for the sick person. That's why he went to prison. He pushed the button = crazy man. |
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The Avatar
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Serial killer taking advantage of a niche market of willing victims, protected by an area of law hamstrung by moral uncertainty.
p.s. I was of the frame of mind of the other contributors, until I read the FBI's psychological profile of the guy. |
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atari
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Haha, he's born on may 20th which is also my birthday and he is Armenian and so am i. So i guess that's pretty cool but other then that i think he's pretty nuts. He's gonna die soon anyways because of the Hepatisis C he contracted in Vietnam. |
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