Jack Kevorkian, aka "Doctor Death", to be released tomorrow.

[limepocky]

Article here.Jesus Christ, finally. I can't believe they convicted him of helping someone WHO WANTED TO DIE. I know a lot of people who don't like him because "he killed people". Yes, he did. Because they wanted to die. He wasn't a murderer, he didn't kill people for his own gain. Technically he didn't even kill them himself, he just gave them the

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[estelendur]

why are we so attached to life, we who are so full of it, that we cannot imagine somebody living with a condition that makes their life extremely difficult to enjoy could possibly want to let go, to die? How can we be so enamoured of living that we refuse to release those for whom each day is an unbearable struggle?

I would rather, if my father were living in pain and wished death, have the closure that death - planned death - would bring, rather than live with terrible uncertainty and the pain of seeing somebody I loved in anguish and being able to do nothing.

[4o5pastmidnight]

Yeah, those are some of the few times I think suicide is alright. I really hate when these teenagers say they're going to commit suicide because they hate their parents. I think it's much more complicated than that. I definitely think that if someone is terminally ill, they should have the right to speed up the process and make it much less painful. I believe this mainly because my uncle, who was one of the first 10,000 gay men to die of AIDS, was miserable and only receiving sugar pills to help his pain, and he covered his face in a plastic bag. I seriously can't blame him, because it would have been horrible to live like that much longer than he did.

[engelen]

the thing is... the law is the law :S

even tho it might be seen as "moraly correct" (which, by the way, according to ethics and stuff, it is not), the law is the law.

I am a pro-euthanasia person, I even had to go thru teh decission of unplugging my grandma when she had a stroke.
I believe the real criminals are the doctors that put them on life support when they know they won't have a good life afterwards (because ethics has the purpose of achieving human happiness and wellbeing)

uh
yes
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