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Dear Dr. Kevorkian (or do you go by Dr. Death now?),
I am taking a philosophy course called “Life and Death,” and my homework assignment is to write a letter to you - I hear you like receiving letters, so I guess this works out well. I don’t really know that much about you; I know that you created a suicide machine, stuck it in the back of your van (this will be referred to as the death-mobile henceforth), and assisted approximately one hundred (or more?) people with their suicides. I also know that before you became a doctor you attempted to become some sort of movie-maker, but when your movie bombed, you returned to your original career path (imagine - if your movie hadn’t bombed, how different life would be!). I suppose there are a couple of different ways to look at this whole situation. Perhaps you were trying to further the cause of euthanasia; you really felt a lot of sympathy for all of those poor, suffering people out there who had nothing to do but burden their loved ones as they awaited death, and you really thought assisting their suicides was the right thing to do.
I wonder, did you get paid for your assistance? - which brings me to my next perspective. Perhaps you were getting a little more out of this whole endeavor than the quenching of that humanitarian thirst deep within you. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you seem to be a bit of an egomaniac. It’s one thing to quietly go around and assist them, but it is quite another to flaunt court orders and then to go on national television and dare a judge to prosecute you. And, there’s also that whole movie thing, which suggests that you might like public attention a little too much - I generally consider anyone pursuing a career in Hollywood to be a narcissist. In your defense, I guess you could say that the reason you were so loud about your actions was because you were trying to turn euthanasia into a more public and accepted issue.
But, I don’t know, Kevorkian, it seems like that tactic wasn’t too successful. I mean, I think you kind of gave euthanasia an evil face, which might be worse than no face at all. For Chrissakes, you were assisting people you weren’t even the doctor of! How could you have possibly known that euthanasia was the right course of action? Are you so sure about the ethics of euthanasia that you are willing to administer it all willy-nilly like? Man! A word of advice: next time you are trying to give euthanasia a good public rep, don’t ride around in a death-mobile and kill complete strangers!
Well. I hope you enjoyed my musings. I also hope prison is treating you well. Don’t drop the soap!
Sincerely,
Morganna Lambeth
I am taking a philosophy course called “Life and Death,” and my homework assignment is to write a letter to you - I hear you like receiving letters, so I guess this works out well. I don’t really know that much about you; I know that you created a suicide machine, stuck it in the back of your van (this will be referred to as the death-mobile henceforth), and assisted approximately one hundred (or more?) people with their suicides. I also know that before you became a doctor you attempted to become some sort of movie-maker, but when your movie bombed, you returned to your original career path (imagine - if your movie hadn’t bombed, how different life would be!). I suppose there are a couple of different ways to look at this whole situation. Perhaps you were trying to further the cause of euthanasia; you really felt a lot of sympathy for all of those poor, suffering people out there who had nothing to do but burden their loved ones as they awaited death, and you really thought assisting their suicides was the right thing to do.
I wonder, did you get paid for your assistance? - which brings me to my next perspective. Perhaps you were getting a little more out of this whole endeavor than the quenching of that humanitarian thirst deep within you. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you seem to be a bit of an egomaniac. It’s one thing to quietly go around and assist them, but it is quite another to flaunt court orders and then to go on national television and dare a judge to prosecute you. And, there’s also that whole movie thing, which suggests that you might like public attention a little too much - I generally consider anyone pursuing a career in Hollywood to be a narcissist. In your defense, I guess you could say that the reason you were so loud about your actions was because you were trying to turn euthanasia into a more public and accepted issue.
But, I don’t know, Kevorkian, it seems like that tactic wasn’t too successful. I mean, I think you kind of gave euthanasia an evil face, which might be worse than no face at all. For Chrissakes, you were assisting people you weren’t even the doctor of! How could you have possibly known that euthanasia was the right course of action? Are you so sure about the ethics of euthanasia that you are willing to administer it all willy-nilly like? Man! A word of advice: next time you are trying to give euthanasia a good public rep, don’t ride around in a death-mobile and kill complete strangers!
Well. I hope you enjoyed my musings. I also hope prison is treating you well. Don’t drop the soap!
Sincerely,
Morganna Lambeth