FRIDA on Kevorkian

[fierceawakening]

There's a post up at the FRIDA blog on Jack Kevorkian, and the following struck me:

thanks for bringing this up linda. the gender element of jack's victims has almost always been ignored by the press and mainstream feminist groups. although very early on in kevorkian's killing spree a writer did pick up and this and put out an article "the woman

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[fierceawakening]

Kereth,

I don't see anything wrong with your comment. I'm working through what I think of all this as well.

I just think that it's important to hear and understand why people do object to it... particularly when some are people likely to have heard all their lives that they should be, or want to be, dead.

[rootietoot]

I'm not sure how I feel about assisted suicide either. How something so incredibly private and individual can have rules, I'm not sure. I do know this- I wholeheartedly believe Kevorkian is a twisted sick sonofabitch.

[nightengalesknd]

That's very similar to my feeling on assisted suicide. It's hard, because it goes against my self-determinitive nature, but the best I've been able to come up with is:

I will support suicide and assisted suicide for people with disabilities, just as soon as it isn't ILLEGAL for a person without a disability to commit suicide. I figure, either both should be legal/supported, or neither should be, and I'm not sure which I prefer of these two choices.

[fierceawakening]

I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's certainly crossed my mind too. And no, I'm not sure which of those choices I like better.