Dr Death to be released

[Giaour]

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

[Guest man]

Personally, I think he's a serial killer.

[LossForWords]

Hmmm...

[DarkNebulaWelder]

You know, I'm probably the only one with this opinion, but I think that Mr. Kevorkian is getting a bad rap.

I don't consider what he did as merciless killings.

All of the people whom he helped were terminally ill, and WANTED to die. I really think that compassion was at the root of his actions, and that he truly felt he was doing them a meaningful service. I don't think his motives were malicious at all.

When I was young, I watched my mother die a long, painful, horrible death, and can certainly understand why these people would solicit his services. Dr. Kevorkian risked his freedom and his credibility to give these people a dignified, painless death. I personally think there are people out there more deserving of prison than this guy.

[DarkNebulaWelder]

I am not surprised he is being released, since he was not officially convicted of murder. He actually served more time than I expected he would, but I personally believe he should serve the entire 25 year maximum sentence. It turned out that some of the people he helped commit suicide were not even terminally ill at the time. In my opinion, this man is evil, and has some type of perverted obsession with death.

Hmmmm...really? I thought that they were all terminally ill.

[LossForWords]

Agree and disagree...

I think there are people out there who deserve FAR worse than just a prison sentence, but they are still out lurking the streets..

However, "Dr. Put Them Out Of Their Misery" should not be allowed to...for lack of a better term..."play God." Yeah, people die slooooooow and painful deaths. My grandmother (who gave me a foundation for a Christian life) died of Parkinson's, a really devastating disease that I pray I don't have to suffer. My grandfather took his own life due to the affects of alzheimers. And even with all the suffering and pain that they endured, I would never have wished that this Dr. pay them a visit. He takes the honor out of death, he makes it a dirty thing...what? you're dying? let me take you out quickly...I think it takes a real mentally disturbed person to be able to "quietly kill so many people.

[DarkNebulaWelder]

Agree and disagree...

I think there are people out there who deserve FAR worse than just a prison sentence, but they are still out lurking the streets..

However, "Dr. Put Them Out Of Their Misery" should not be allowed to...for lack of a better term..."play God." Yeah, people die slooooooow and painful deaths.

TRUE....and the medical profession is raking in millions of dollars helping to prolong the misery of people who would rather just die peacefully. Of COURSE they would want to put Mr. Kevorkian away. The longer a dying person can hang on, the more $$$ they can generate through their so-called "medical care."

[LossForWords]

People pay alot for medical care, and yeah, the medical profession is making a killer on new medicines that are said to cure this and help with that. And as taxpayers we pay plenty to keep people in prison. I'm all for the death penalty, and Dr. Death could administor his own lethal injection.

I don't want a disease that are common occurances among the elderly, I don't want Parkinson's or Alzheimers or cancer or anything else like that...I'd rather die in my sleep. But life doesn't always work that way. But no matter how God decides to allow me to go out, I'll go out in style...and not with some demented Doc hanging over my bed and killing me. I want my last words to be meaningful, like..."I see the light!" or some such clever quote instead of..."Do it now Doc."

Would you really want to go out like that?

[DarkNebulaWelder]

People pay alot for medical care, and yeah, the medical profession is making a killer on new medicines that are said to cure this and help with that. And as taxpayers we pay plenty to keep people in prison. I'm all for the death penalty, and Dr. Death could administor his own lethal injection.

I don't want a disease that are common occurances among the elderly, I don't want Parkinson's or Alzheimers or cancer or anything else like that...I'd rather die in my sleep. But life doesn't always work that way. But no matter how God decides to allow me to go out, I'll go out in style...and not with some demented Doc hanging over my bed and killing me. I want my last words to be meaningful, like..."I see the light!" or some such clever quote instead of..."Do it now Doc."

Would you really want to go out like that?

Good comments.

As I said before, I do not think Mr. Kevorkian was acting maliciously or killing just for killing's sake.

I do think that his intentions were good, and that he meant no evil harm to the victims, who were dying anyhow. I do think that, in his mind, these were mercy killings, and that his motives were, for the most part, noble.

I also know that he was selective in whom he chose to assist, and that the spouses of the deceased actually praised Dr. Kevorkian for decreasing their misery.

I don't think that death via suicide machine (or whatever it was that hecalled his contraption) is any less dignified than a long, painful, suffered death. If he were a truly malicious guy, he could just as well have just put a pillow over their face, but at least he engineered some sort of painless, quick method.

Certainly, I don't think this man deserves praise, but I also don't consider him a cold-hearted murderer. I honestly think that he is a misguided individual who needs to be witnessed to.

As I said earlier, he risked his career, his stature, and his credibility to try to help these people...It's not like he murdered them for the joy of killing.

I just think he is a godless man who thinks he's doing the right thing.

[childofthegreat_i_am]

The fact remains that it is not our decision who dies or when they die. We can't choose for others, or for ourselves.

God alone creates life... and God alone takes it.