Jack Kevorkian?

Question

How do you feel about Jack Kevorkian (suicide assist Dr.) being released from prison today?

Answer 1

I think people have to each answer according to their individual consciences and religious creed.

If people made a living will before they got sick, there would be no question about their desires if/when they do.

Jack Kevorkian truly believed he was assisting people. Unfortunately the law was not on his side.

Frankly, it is against my religion, Catholicism, to end my life before God says it is time. I've seen many relatives and friends suffer from unbelievable pain towards the end of their lives, and yet there were moments of such humanity and love that I cannot imagine any one of them would have wanted to go before their time. With my dad, I actually had to tell him he didn't have to hang on any longer for us. That if he wanted to pass, we all loved him and would understand.

I am glad Dr. Kevorkian is being released. He served his time, according to the terms set by the judicial system. That's how we run things in the U.S. Enough said.

Answer 2

I'm glad for him. I think it's cruel to make humans suffer for what could turn out to be years, when our animal friends are humanely put down when they're terminally ill, and chronically suffering. I admit that this is a controversial subject. It's a fuzzy area when you start debating the "assisted suicide vs. letting people choose when they've had all they can stand" part . I am a christian, and I believe the bible is truth. But, I also believe that there's a difference beween cruel indifference, and humane treatment of people. Our bodies are only human.
The thing is, that if , being a christian, and chose to assist people with ending their worldly lives, I would pray for God to help me with each individual person, on a spiritual level, so that I wouldn't be condemning them to hell, by taking their life if they weren't saved.

I think that as long as there is substantial evidence to confirm that it was the ill persons choice, and not an act of murder, it should be the persons right to choose. If the person wants to die, but isn't actually "holding the needle", shall we say, then is it still suicide? Do the words kill vs. murder mean the same thing?

kill: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kill
murder: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/murder

Does malice vs. compassion have ANY bearing on the "killers" soul?

I can't say for sure, but this is how I feel.

In a way, reminds me of the manditory seat belt law! (which is a crock) How does it concern anyone else besides the driver? Whether the driver is or isn't wearing one, has no bearing on the safety of other drivers on the road, or those in the car with them. I agree that babies and small children should be buckled in, but that's for another question.
Anyway, I'm interested to see how other people answered to this one.

Answer 3

I can't believe the previous answers. How can anyone with brains equate the life of animals with that of humans? NO, we're not animals, maybe you are, but I most certainly am not.
Do I think he should be in prison? I don't know... unfortunatelly it really won't make much of a difference whether he's in prison or not because the main problem is that most of the people in this country have lost their moral compass
Incidentally, Hitler was also very much into euthanasia.
Karl Brandt, the head of Hitler's euthanasia program, claimed at his trial after the war: "The underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves and were thus prolonging their lives of torment."
Doesn't this sound so much like Kevorkian?

C.S. Lewis wrote this: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions..." Sure we want to help people deal with their suffering but have you stopped to think that this new freedom might be used in ways it wasn't originally intended?

Answer 4

I think its about time - the man was only about assisting others for doing what they couldn't do themselves. I personally don't have that in me - to help others to kill themselves, but I can't help but admire someone who places people's desires so ahead of their own morals that they can do this without guilt. And besides Dr. Kevorkian ain't no spring chicken - let him enjoy the rest of his life the way he wants to. Public opinion be damned.

Answer 5

I just love the simplistic view. How does anyone actually know those who die wanted to? They can't speak for themselves now.

There are two points here.
1. He knowingly broke the law and so he should face the consequences. It doesn't matter, is totally irrelevant whether the law is good or bad, he broke it.
2. Allowing 'assisted suicide' is a dangerous step. It opens a whole can of worms about how do you prove the one who is dead wanted to die? What are the prerequisites for it? Does power of attorney for an Alzheimer's patient give you the right to sign documents for the patient agreeing to 'assisted suicide'? If part of the disease makes it impossible to make rational decisions, who decides for you? Who decides whether you are capable of making rational decisions?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I'm with wildman on this one. All the people he assisted wanted his help and there is nothing wrong with ending a persons suffering if its at their request. Would the gov't rather have a bunch of people in bathtubs with slit wrists because they can't have help so they do it on their own?

Answer 8

I think that he should never have been in prison in the first place. There is nothing wrong with wanting to die with dignity.

I am astounded that people will euthanize an animal to stop its suffering but when it is done to a person it is murder.

Answer 9

He's not a threat to society. So I'm fine with it. But he should have done it. Even thought those people were suffering, he helped them do it, and legally that's considered murder.

I do think that people who are terminally ill should have the right to end their life. No one should have to live in that kind of pain.

Answer 10

One step forward, a more humanistic Evolution, I wonder How long will this go one, until the three Monkey,s will stop evolution again.