12.21.2006

"Dr. Death"

I forgot to blog about this story last week, but since this picture is absolute money, I decided to post today about the story and the man. You could not believe the airtime that Dr. Jack Kevorkian received locally when he was helping people die in MI. Sheesh. The story obviously grew wings for a national spotlight, but as every story that gains national attention, it's MUCH worse for the citizens near it. Mix in Geoffrey Fieger and you have serious drama. Anyway, I laugh at these fundamentalists who are trying to get their grills in front of the cameras to pop off about how Dr. Death is going to get back into the killing game the second he gets released from jail. The guy's own health is deteriorating rapidly; he's frail and has fallen a few times adding further injury to his person and yet people want to keep him in jail to rot.
Personally, I don't see the issue with Dr. Kevorkian as being a danger to society. People ASKED for his help and if someone was unable to request his help, then those who had legal say in a person's healthcare asked for the help. Explain to me how that is wrong? People say that Kevorkian was sick and twisted and LIKED to kill people. Are those same people saying anything about the hundreds (probably thousands) of doctors who are vacuuming kids out of the uteri of women across the US on a daily basis? Probably not, but when an ADULT asked someone to inject them with a compound that causes them to stop breathing, the person (Kevorkian) pressing the syringe is crazy? I'm not here to say that Assisted Suicide is right or wrong, but I am also not someone who lives every second of their life in excruciating pain and have been unable to get any relief through conventional or homeopathic options.

Let the guy out of jail and worry about bigger issues like a war, education, rising healthcare costs or the US economy. Some people just amaze me.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what a fruitbasket, he needs to be let in the max security ward with the rapists.

shqipo said...

I think this "dr. k" who left this post is a fruit basket and needs to be let suffer slowly but painfully till "natural death" comes and takes him.

JD: I agree (for once!:P)

The D said...

Hold on a moment there. He never actually pushed a syringe, he just set it up so they could off themselves. I have no issue with that. It is their life. Better a peaceful death than a shot gun to the face. Imagine the mess that would make.

Josue' said...

D,
Correct you are in that he was the "set-up" man. My mistake.

phun N gab and the Gay Circus Elves said...

I wonder if Dr. Death will kill himself