Jack Kevorkian Dead
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He seems to have helped ease alot of pain and suffering through the years, and hopefully was able to depart in a similar manner.
After just watching a loved one struggle this past week with zero hope I have a strong respect for what he tried to do to ease peoples pain. :0008
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Jack lived near me here in Royal Oak Michigan so I was able to meet and talk to him on numerous occassions. We had something in common being the same nationality. Jack was always a very caring and descent man. R.I.P Jack I always thought you were a class act.
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DR. Jack Kevorkian was a rare human being. He was an historic man. He was a rare human being who could single-handedly take on an entire society by the scruff of its neck and force it to focus on the suffering of other human beings.
It's a rare human being who has the courage, as Dr. Kevorkian did, the courage of his convictions, and who is strong enough, as Dr. Kevorkian was, to stand up against never-ending threats and attacks that were made upon us by the most powerful figures in our society—the Governor, the Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the police, the prosecutor.
It?s a rare human being who understands both intellectually and emotionally the freedoms that are contained within our Constitution and the right, as Dr. Jack used to say, of every human being to make his or her own decisions about his or her own lives, consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.
My friend Jack Kevorkian didn?t seek out history but he made history. He was a physician first and foremost who had an acute sense of compassion and respect for the dignity of his patients, ?the patient before him,? he used to say. He simply felt that it was the duty of every physician to alleviate, to overcome, the patient?s suffering and he also felt when that duty involved dying patients, patients whose suffering couldn?t be alleviated through medicine, whose pain was never-ending that in such circumstances when there was no legitimate alternative, it was the duty of physicians to help patients end their own suffering, and in some cases that meant the right of patients to end their own lives.
When politicians and churchmen and medical associations asserted their claim that only they could make the decisions for suffering and dying people, Dr. Jack Kevorkian had the strength of his own convictions to risk his own freedom and at times to risk his own life for the rights of his patients and ultimately for the rights of all of us.
Jack was not a religious man but ironically he embraced the spiritual idea of sacrificing one?s own life out of love and commitment for the right cause and for others? suffering. Through his courage and determination he shined a light on a right that I believe, he believed, and I think most of us believe that we hold innately, that tens and thousands of people now are no longer abandoned to suffer until dead because of his convictions and his courage.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a client of mine who became a friend. We supported each other. We argued with each other. We laughed with each other. For 10 long years we stood arm and arm together when it mattered most. I?ll cry alone for him now. I will personally miss him. I am personally grateful to him for having given me the opportunity to have known a great man.
In every man?s life comes a wave that if taken at its crest will lead to success. Dr. Jack Kevorkian and I along with him rode a wave together and now he rides alone to a greater destiny.
Geoffrey Nels Fieger
*This is a transcript of Geoffrey Fieger's remarks at a press conference held at Fieger Law on June 3, 2011, the day of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's passing.
It's a rare human being who has the courage, as Dr. Kevorkian did, the courage of his convictions, and who is strong enough, as Dr. Kevorkian was, to stand up against never-ending threats and attacks that were made upon us by the most powerful figures in our society—the Governor, the Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the police, the prosecutor.
It?s a rare human being who understands both intellectually and emotionally the freedoms that are contained within our Constitution and the right, as Dr. Jack used to say, of every human being to make his or her own decisions about his or her own lives, consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.
My friend Jack Kevorkian didn?t seek out history but he made history. He was a physician first and foremost who had an acute sense of compassion and respect for the dignity of his patients, ?the patient before him,? he used to say. He simply felt that it was the duty of every physician to alleviate, to overcome, the patient?s suffering and he also felt when that duty involved dying patients, patients whose suffering couldn?t be alleviated through medicine, whose pain was never-ending that in such circumstances when there was no legitimate alternative, it was the duty of physicians to help patients end their own suffering, and in some cases that meant the right of patients to end their own lives.
When politicians and churchmen and medical associations asserted their claim that only they could make the decisions for suffering and dying people, Dr. Jack Kevorkian had the strength of his own convictions to risk his own freedom and at times to risk his own life for the rights of his patients and ultimately for the rights of all of us.
Jack was not a religious man but ironically he embraced the spiritual idea of sacrificing one?s own life out of love and commitment for the right cause and for others? suffering. Through his courage and determination he shined a light on a right that I believe, he believed, and I think most of us believe that we hold innately, that tens and thousands of people now are no longer abandoned to suffer until dead because of his convictions and his courage.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a client of mine who became a friend. We supported each other. We argued with each other. We laughed with each other. For 10 long years we stood arm and arm together when it mattered most. I?ll cry alone for him now. I will personally miss him. I am personally grateful to him for having given me the opportunity to have known a great man.
In every man?s life comes a wave that if taken at its crest will lead to success. Dr. Jack Kevorkian and I along with him rode a wave together and now he rides alone to a greater destiny.
Geoffrey Nels Fieger
*This is a transcript of Geoffrey Fieger's remarks at a press conference held at Fieger Law on June 3, 2011, the day of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's passing.
Sure is a slippery slope when we treat humans like animals. It can never be right to kill somebody like this even if they want to die. Hell, why don't we just make nightly sweeps through all the nursing homes and pop all the screamers with some Succinylcholine?? We could hire a few more dead wagons to pick up the ones with no family after they get done with the horses and cows since the funeral homes will be so busy. Might as well go hit up all the teenagers after prom too bc I'm sure plenty of them would like to die then too. Heck, let's set up a booth at the unemployment office too (no job? Feel like dieing? See us for more information! Quick and painless!).
**I'm talking assisted suicide not war, protecting one's self/family, or any kind of punishment for a crime.**.
I didn't/still don't like Kervorkian. Hope nobody continues his work. It's wrong, and it's a travesty.
**I'm talking assisted suicide not war, protecting one's self/family, or any kind of punishment for a crime.**.
I didn't/still don't like Kervorkian. Hope nobody continues his work. It's wrong, and it's a travesty.
Six Five you're late they already started.
Paul Ryan Vows to Continue Kevorkian?s Work
Medicare to be Replaced with ?Kevouchers?
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) ? In a somber Congressional ceremony, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) eulogized the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian today, vowing to ?honor his legacy by continuing his good work.?
?Dr. Kevorkian tried to ease the transition of seniors into the great beyond,? an emotional Rep. Ryan told his colleagues in the House of Representatives. ?Here in Congress, we have the opportunity ? one might even say the obligation ? to continue Kevorkian?s work on a grander scale.?
As a first step to memorialize the work of Dr. Kevorkian, Rep. Ryan said that his new budget plan would replace Medicare with a system of so-called ?Kevouchers? that could be redeemed for cyanide pills, nooses and bullets.
If I were dying of ALS or my Brain was being eaten away by cancer and nothing would help the pain I'd be hoping someone like Dr. Kevorkian would be there for me.........no doubt about it.
You would think being in the health care field u would have a different opinion about this. Are these religious beliefs? U see all that suffering and no hope in sight and u want people to just keep on suffering? He wasn't helping people with a stomach virus.
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I don't think he treated "humans like animals" at all, but rather gave them choices and some dignity in death. I would surely want the choice to end my own life if it was full of pain and suffering. I guess I am a person who subscribes to "Peter Singer Ethics". Although some of his ideas are controversial, what he really wants is the best for everyone, and the least suffering as well.
If we really wanted to treat humans like animals, then when they were old, dying, and fairly useless, we would just put them all in a home together and let them rot away and die, while they didn't even really know what was happening to them...oh wait...
i sat in the university of Penn hospital for five hours yesterday watching people roll by me. People looking to be about 90 years old being treated thinking to my self , why in the world would i want to live like that. I wasn't in a wing that was the standard treatment. It was the Nuclear medicine wing :facepalm:
I respectfully disagree.
Like others said. if I had ALS or severe Huntington's Chorea , please just let me give you the ok to give me the needle. :0008
Ur grandchildren won't even want to go to the doctor for a simple sinus infection when they get old for fear they will be euthanized.
Look at some of the things that happened in WWII Germany. Do u think those proud people would have ever thought their leader and fellow citizens could have committed those atrocities??
Human euthanization is scary scary stuff!! The next step will be when POAs can make that decision because granny doesnt have the mental capacity. There can be no good that comes from this practice.
Look at some of the things that happened in WWII Germany. Do u think those proud people would have ever thought their leader and fellow citizens could have committed those atrocities??
Human euthanization is scary scary stuff!! The next step will be when POAs can make that decision because granny doesnt have the mental capacity. There can be no good that comes from this practice.
