Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian dies at 83...

[Leafar the Lost]

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan physician who caused a storm of controversy with his advocacy for assisted suicide, has died.

Kevorkian, who was known by the nickname "Dr. Death," died between 2 and 2:30 a.m. Friday morning, the Detroit Free Press reports.

The 84-year-old had been hospitalized for about two weeks with kidney and heart troubles.

His lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, told the newspaper that Kevorkian appeared to have died from pulmonary thrombosis.

Morganroth and Kevorkian's niece Ava Janus were reportedly by his side when he died.

After his death, Dr. Kevorkian was suprised to find the people who he helped to kill themselves waiting for him in the Afterlife...

[Freehold DM]

Wow.

[Evil Lincoln]

Leafar the Lost wrote:

After his death, Dr. Kevorkian was suprised to find the people who he helped to kill themselves waiting for him in the Afterlife...

That's sort of unnecessary.

If it's true (and I'm pretty sure it isn't), I'll bet they were glad to see the one guy who was willing to help them end their pain.

[Jeremiziah]

Yeah, this was not a bad person.

Not everybody sees soldiering through a protracted and painful wasting away process as a good or smart thing. Kudos to those who do it, I'd have no interest in doing so.

[Samnell]

We are bereft of a genuine hero today.

[Crimson Jester]

RIP

[W E Ray]

It's what he would have wanted.

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;)

[Bitter Thorn]

Samnell wrote:

We are bereft of a genuine hero today.

Do we own ourselves or don't we. For me this is what end of life issues come down to.

[Samnell]

Bitter Thorn wrote:

Samnell wrote:

We are bereft of a genuine hero today.

Do we own ourselves or don't we. For me this is what end of life issues come down to.

It's strictly a humanitarian issue to me. What could justify demanding someone's agony be prolonged? I'm for euthanasia for the same reason I'm against torture.

[Deadmanwalking]

Yeah. I personally can't imagine wanting to die, not even to escape great pain, but then I'm young and relatively healthy, so what do I know?

Those who do want that kind of escape should absolutely have that option available to them. I mean, if you don't even own your life, what do you own?

I don't know enough about Dr. Kervorkian to know precisely what awaits him in the afterlife, but I doubt the people he helped to get there will be anything but welcoming.

[Zombieneighbours]

I have little idea if he was a good man, but his work toward a world where we can choose not to suffer through long and paimful illness is worthy of recognision. Bio-luddites be damned, when I am older I hope that the battle for control of our lives is won.

[Guy Humual]

I suspect that one day we'll look back and think the treatment given to Dr Kevorkian was unjust. He tried to help people. I hope I'm never in the situation where I'd want or need a Doctor assisted suicide, but if that time should come I hope I'll have that option.

When my Grandmother died of Cancer in the 80s the nurse weren't even allowed to give her extra morphine for the pain. They knew she was terminal, they could see that she was suffering, but the rules at the time prevented them from upping the dose without a Doctor's consent. Thankfully we've come a ways sense then. I hope in the future the patient can choose when to go rather then making them wait for nature to take its course.

RIP Dr Kevorkian