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RIP Jack Kevorkian
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Yeah, the joke writes itself.
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His methods were crude but I wholeheartedly support his beliefs. Al Pacino played Kevorkian (and won and Emmy and Golden Globe) in the HBO film You Don't Know Jack. I recommend it for anyone wanting some insight into his life and work.
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He's euthanizing angels in heaven now.
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Would we have had any discussion at all about "death with dignity," or about even thinking about the patient's wishes in terms of advance directives if Jack hadn't pushed the envelope as hard as he did? I agree that he was crude in his approach, but maybe we all needed that much of a push to begin to think about such things.
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Are we talking about the Youth in Asia debate again?
Seriously, though, Kevorkian kind of dropped off the radar over the last number of years. Had he at least gotten out of prison before his death?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
Had he at least gotten out of prison before his death?
Yes, he was paroled in 2007.
This issue resonates with me because my dad suffered a couple miserable years with cancer with the terrible treatment side effects, and finally took his life (after a final terminal diagnosis) in a violent, but quick way. There should have been a better option.
I don't know, but this seems like one of those issues that is tough to judge from 3rd party perspective. I don't think Kevorkian was a bad man at all.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
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I agree with design219; Jack Kevorkian was irritating and brash, but he needed to be that way to get people to pay attention to the issue. And since his heyday in the press, a LOT of changes have come about, especially the pretty much US nationwide recognition of advance directives and living wills. It is not yet where Jack thought it should be-people with terminal diagnoses still have to let the disease process take their lives everywhere except Oregon (and Washington state?), but there are legal requirements that medical staff heed patients' documented wishes.
Our medical abilities today are so fantastic that medicine CAN save many lives that could not be extended at all before. But medicine is not yet dealing with the quality of that extended life. Until that is part of our entire culture, we will need gadflies and loud, brash people to remind us that an extra two years of agony is not "living."
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