Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83

[johnmiic]

I'm thinking: Needs more Cow Bell!

Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at 83 This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

[Adam West]

I'm surprised he didn't practice what he preached.

[jwyblejr]

^I was wondering the same thing myself when I read it.

[Brazoo]

I don't see how he was a hypocrite at all.

“(His death) was peaceful," Morganroth told the paper. "He didn’t feel a thing."

[GlobalObserver]

I'm all in favor of physician assisted suicide for the terminally ill, but I believe that Kevorkian was detrimental to the cause, doing more harm than good. It was the right message being delivered by the wrong messenger. The guy seemed to have an almost ghoulish fascination with death. To me, he came across like a serial killer with a medical degree. Even his artwork is similar in style to that of Ramirez and Gacy. Amongst his colleagues he was considered a real oddball. There was something terribly off about that guy.

[Joe90]

There was something terribly off about that guy.

Yup!

[toys2cool]

i thought he was still in prison

[Werewolf]

The guy seemed to have an almost ghoulish fascination with death. To me, he came across like a serial killer with a medical degree. Even his artwork is similar in style to that of Ramirez and Gacy. Amongst his colleagues he was considered a real oddball. There was something terribly off about that guy.

I totally agree with that. He always came off as a person who relished death and wanted to experience people dieing and not someone who wanted to relieve the pain or suffering of others. I think serial killer is an apt description for the man.

[Hector]

I'm also in favor of physician assisted suicide for the terminally ill...but like Global Observer said...Kevorkian came across more as a serial killer himself...not helping up the cause much.

[Brazoo]

I haven't come across anything that made me think that he was - uh - mentally unhealthy about the subject. He may very well might have been - I just haven't come across anything that made me think that yet. Admittedly, I haven't followed him too closely.

Any links to anything that might give me more background on what you guys are talking about?

All I was saying was that (as far as I know) he only advocated assisted suicide for people who wanted it and were terminally ill and in pain - so I don't think that it's hypocritical that he didn't commit suicide for his own illness.

[Werewolf]

I haven't come across anything that made me think that he was - uh - mentally unhealthy about the subject. He may very well might have been - I just haven't come across anything that made me think that yet. Admittedly, I haven't followed him too closely.

If you want to do some research on the guy there is a lot of fluff pieces out there on him to wade through but also a great deal of more objective research on the man that goes past his public veneer and into his history of morbid obsession with death and the need to actually experience people dieing. I'm not going to endure it again. Needless to say, he was a deeply, deeply disturbed man. I hesitate to use the word "evil" when describing people but with him, it fits.

[Hulk]

He practiced what he preached, in that he was of the opinion that people should be able to choose at the end of their life how they want to go. He chose to keep fighting, and was not considered terminal anyway. And there was no real push for these options before him, so it's hard to say he set back a movement that was going nowhere before. He just made people and lawmakers in some states to decide how they would implement their laws. Like him or not, assisted suicide is a legal option for some because of him. Sometimes it takes someone a bit off the edge to push an agenda forward.

[Adam West]

He was also of the opinion that one not be terminally ill for assisted suicide. In his own words, "What difference does it make if someone is terminal? We are all terminal."