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- HenvY, on 10/11/2007, -2/+65Great news, hopefully he can continue his good work and terminally ill people in tremendous pain can stop being treated like retards(you know...except the ones that actually are...).
- swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -3/+66He never should have been imprisoned in the first place.
- bmartin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+61The title is a bit misleading. According to the article below, he's said that he's not going to counsel anyone on assisted suicide, let alone involve himself in one. He's not "back in business"; he's merely free.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070526/D8PCCJ000.html - Wonderkind, on 10/11/2007, -4/+56Why do people have to lie to sell their story?
He was let out of jail. He is not "back in business."
Dugg Down as inaccurate. - RadioFreeOpium, on 10/11/2007, -2/+35I'm sorry but "Doctor Death" is one bitchin' nickname, I can only hope of having one that sweet someday.
- shadus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I don't see a problem with assisted euthanasia. People should be able to do with their own body what they wish to do... that includes putting harmful substances in it, or ending their own life so long as they are mentally fit to make that kind of decision. The government shouldn't be involved in the day to day running of our lives.
- orientis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18My mother has already told me that if she is in great pain, or even if she is braindead (due to stroke or similar) that we should kill her asap. No waiting around for a few months to make sure, none of that. Just end it.
It should be absolutely legal. Insane that it is not. Especially for you Yanks, what with the death penalty and all. Somehow it's immoral to kill yourself, but not immoral for the state to do so. - Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18"To the Deathmobile!"
- evilregis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13My uncle has ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and I wish for death for him. We put pets down when they're suffering. But yet we decide to pull out all the stops to prolong the suffering of our loved ones.
My uncle is unable to move. He's unable to swallow. He eats/drinks through a feeding tube. He can't speak. His only method of communication is with his eyes. All the while, his mind is perfectly in tact. Literally a prisoner in his own body.
For what reason is he not allowed to say, "You know what? I don't want to live this life. I'm sick of someone having to wipe my ass for me. I'm sick of someone having to scratch my itches for me. I'm sick of not being able to communicate that I have a headache and that I just want an Advil. Let me end this."? - Toshibi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I'm the same as your mom. Let me die on my terms!
Anyhow, didn't you hear? The government decides our morals in the land of the free. - Jwoey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13This is a great day.
- borninda818, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16how bout we dont kill anyone except those in tremedous agony.
/your stupid - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"... still believing people have the right to die ..."
What a hard-headed fool. Does he not know that society has a right to keep anyone it wants alive, wracked with pain though he might be, for its own insincere and posturing pious moral gratification? How dare the man deny the right of all God-fearing Americans to feel themselves to be participating in something morally righteous, while relaxing in a chair at home and watching, via television, a fundamentalist Southern Baptist declaring that the most heinous selfishness is, in fact, probity; that it is the prerogative of society to dictate to a person what he will continue to remain alive, against his will, at the pleasure and whim of society.
Tsk tsk. An oburate and incorrigible sinner. - Dgen_X, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Why do people have to lie to sell their story?
He was let out of jail. He is not "back in business."
Dugg Down as inaccurate."
There are probably 12 other Kevorkian stores that didn't get dugg up because their titles weren't sensationalized like this one
sorry...did I say 12? I meant
http://digg.com/search?section=news&s=Kevorkian
you can find this story smack dab in the middle of page 2 - tuzziel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7They still think is better to die in 3 month long agony then in one painless and controlled exit under anestetia.
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6AFAIK it was on a technicality (not necessarily a totally-forget-about-it technicality, but one nonetheless) where one of his patients couldn't physically press the syringe themselves or something like that.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I completely agree, if I'm ever unable to move or interact with anyone then ***** the feeding tube I'd rather die.
On a related note, welcome to 2000. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Irony aside, if I ever get a terminal illness and any of you ***** christian retards try and keep me alive for your primitive superstition, while telling me that, as an atheist, I am condemned to hell anyway, I will buy a gun and kill as many of you as I can before I get my own way at the hands of the police.
- leadx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5This man is a hero... I applaud everything about what he stands for.
I'd rather die, that live in constant pain. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8gjhdL1A1Y
-Futurama Suicide Booth, thought it might be relevant. - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Oh great, there goes the break from the endless Kevorkian Internet flame wars.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9It's the filthy christians that made this cruel and intolerant behaviour possible.
Cowering behind their defiance of their own fear of death, the hypocrites!
I so vividly hope there was a god who could pass judgement on these sickminded zealots. - filmbandit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3exactly!!
dr. death was no name kevorkian gave himself. i think the guy should is a modern florence nightingale.
it is the sensationalists in media and the politicians that have made euthanasia and death with dignity a muddled issue. all of it in deference to a bunch of religious kooks.
i watched a parent fall apart from cancer over months and then have to suffer the final days (an insult really) in pain and grotesque mutation -- it definitely made me angry as i watched a someone i love have to endure this. i wish in the U.S. 2 doctors could sign a legal form and my father could have been peacefully "expired" when he cared to -- because the last 7 months of his life he said as much -- he said he wanted to lie down and just go to sleep.
the worst part of this stuff is listening to the religious and the politicians inject themselves into the conversation. infuriating. i'm sure it is folks that have never sat ringside as someone they love falls apart. - ArmyOfFun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Our declaration of independence reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Rights are two streets, we're allowed to execute those rights, and we're free not to. We're free to deny ourselves our liberty and our pursuit of happiness. Our right to life on the other hand is for some bizarre reason, a right which we are not allowed to deny ourselves. This is against one of the very basic principles our nation was founded on. Unfortunately, that line I quoted is in the declaration of independence and not the constitution, otherwise all these anti-suicide laws would've been thrown out by the courts years ago. - ryodoan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4My grandfather died from lung cancer in 2001, and I can remember well before he even discovered he had cancer, he said that if he was ever so sick that he was confined to a bed he did not want anything to prolong his death.
When we found out he had cancer it was so far progressed that all surgery or chemo could do was delay his death by a few months, but those months would be him stuck in a bed crapping himself.
Towards the end I really understood why he wanted it that way. It is the hardest thing in the world to see someone you love who three months ago was walking around talking, joking with you laying in bed barely able to move, unable to talk so doped on pain killers that he doesnt know what is going on. - GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Whats with everybody citing "tremendous agony" as giving a person the right to die. Shouldn't anyone have the right to die. For any reason.
- PRocker267, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Going to detroit is basically committing suicide.
- theghoul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2....with his trusty sidekick , Perish Boy
- fordistumley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Anyone remember that game Outlaws for the PC? Dr. Death was the boss for the Iron Mine level, no?
- theghoul, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3... Tune in today when they battle "Captain Resuscitation"
- filmbandit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2well it's no nickname he gave himself. it was the "if it bleeds, it leads" media that have done a real good job of muddling the issue of euthanasia and death with dignity in service of a bunch of people's religious beliefs.
if you've ever watched someone with terminal cancer fall apart over months and then because of someone else's superstition be forced to endure their final days in unimaginable pain and grotesque mutation -- it's a bunch of b.s.
2 doctors should be able to sign a legal document saying someone is terminal, and let them die in peace. we do that much for our animals -- why not for people? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Anyone who wishes to impose their own personal beliefs on a dying person and says that they don't have a right to choose euthanasia is an ignorant fool.
- pbaehr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I've always said if I ever got a doctorate I would change my last name to something sinister like "Pain" or "Fury." Unfortunately, I have no intention of going back to school.
- PRocker267, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I pretty much do! I live in garden city, and Detroit's ghettoness is slowly expanding towards us!
- AlphaEta, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I believe the irony was intended.
- mindsnare, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3you..thought wrong, it seems.
- orientis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1For some reason the phrase 'filthy christians' made me laugh. I think because in my head it was Michael Palin's Inquisitor voice.
- diggtomanjeri, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yea! Maybe now he'll go back to creating great music:
http://www.amazon.com/Kevorkian-Suite-Very-Still-Life/dp/B000006MI5/ - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"RAMMING SPEED!"
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/images/Animal%20House%20Deathmobile.jpg
Oh wait, you were making a joke, not a movie reference. Sorry, my bad! - Aliarse, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4@DeskFlyer (#6980651)
Fail. - orientis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ryodoan I've seen a few friends and family in the same situation. Sorry you had to go through that.
- ArntorFTL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Think going to Detroit is like committing suicide? Try LIVING here...
- borninda818, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ok...it was a ***** typo...get over it
not all of us pay attention to spelling and grammar on the internet. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Anyone else remember when he was the guest character on "That's My Bush" (From Matt Stone & Trey Parker)?
George Bush releases Kevorkian from prison to help put down his old and suffering cat :) - rompom7, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yes, but it seems more selfish and less human to just give up.
I think a person should be able to decide whether they want to live or die, no matter what, just don't be selfish and make those who love you, mourn you, just because your girlfriend dumped you. - nace33, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2A lot to learn, some of you have.
- ClayDragon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1How about "Doctor Evil"? Oh wait, we already had that...
- mindsnare, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@Antechronos
amen to that
It's "you're", Dumbass
(yes I realise Dumbass isn't official word, go ***** yourself) - kevthecatslayer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I thought he died in the past couple years.
- orientis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I'd like to think so. Experience leads me to believe otherwise.
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