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Kevorkian’s cause founders as he’s freed

Do you think Kevorkian should have done 8 years in prison for assisted suicide?

USATODAY-LANSING, Mich. — For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves.

The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS’ 60 Minutes. His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states.

But as he prepares to leave prison June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the death of a Michigan man, Kevorkian will find that there’s still only one state that has a law allowing physician-assisted suicide — Oregon.

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3 Responses to “Kevorkian’s cause founders as he’s freed”

  1. captain_menace says:

    Let’s see how public sentiment turns when the baby boomers flood the assisted-suicide demographic and the younger “me” generation says… “want to kill yourself? great idea, why not let the government help?”

  2. WhyWhyWicki says:

    You see, pro-JC is Pro-Misery.

    Jackie tried to honestly help people and this Christian Nation learned him a thing or eight.

  3. He wasn’t a criminal in my mind. I thought he was brave to allow 60 minutes to film his work with that one client who had Lou Gherig’s Disease…as I remember it, the man was living in constant terror of choking on his own saliva, as he couldn’t swallow. His life was a living hell. Kevorkian HELPED THE GUY OUT!

    I whole-heartedly believe this. The client sought out the doctor, and the man’s family was with him the whole way. The government would never be able to know what’s best for someone like this more than himself and his own family.

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