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Jack Kevorkian Released
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I hope that humans someday get over this sanctity of life/must preserve life at all costs crap, it just dumb.
We have no population shortage in this country, and for a country that is supposedly predominantly Christian and believes in a benevolent God and an afterlife, we are far too afraid of death.
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It's good to see him getting out. I agree with his principles, but not some of his methods. It is no business of the state's when a terminally ill patient decides to end the suffering.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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He shouldn't have been locked up in the first place.
If somebody wants to die, that's their decision, and theirs only. If they need help dying, they're entitled to it.
Anybody who thinks they have the right to interfere with that is an arsehole.
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Originally Posted by red rocket 
He shouldn't have been locked up in the first place.
If somebody wants to die, that's their decision, and theirs only. If they need help dying, they're entitled to it.
Anybody who thinks they have the right to interfere with that is an arsehole.
I almost totally agree. Often, a person in pain loses perspective, and many people with serious pain issues become despondent, in spite of the fact that there are treatments to lessen the pain AND correct their medical problem. So if someone wants to die, it's their decision, but it must be made with competent and well thought out advice from a real, patient-oriented physician. NOTHING LESS would be ethical or defensible.
What Kevorkian has done is bring something that has been handled under the table and very unevenly into the light. Instead of a doctor "accidentally" overprescribing an opiate that winds up depressing a patient's breathing to the point the patient dies, the patient should be allowed, with proper advice and a significant amount of thought, to choose to die with dignity, in the light of day, with whomever he or she wants with him or her.
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