Dr. Kevorkian dead at age 83

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AnotherKD

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ETA: I don't know. If I ever become afflicted with a horrible disease like Lou Gherig's or am a vegetable of some sort, I would wish that someone like him would be available to help me. But that's just me.

If you read up on him, the problem is not that he advocated one's right to die. The problem is that he repeatedly violated his own stated procedures for doing doctor-assisted suicide in an ethical manner. Not all of his patients were terminal, few were evaluated by a psychiatrist, many had chronic pain, but were not first referred to a pain specialist, etc.

[AnotherKD]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

If you read up on him, the problem is not that he advocated one's right to die. The problem is that he repeatedly violated his own stated procedures for doing doctor-assisted suicide in an ethical manner. Not all of his patients were terminal, few were evaluated by a psychiatrist, many had chronic pain, but were not first referred to a pain specialist, etc.

True. However, he really did spark the assisted suicide debate, and it's still raging. I do believe in a person's choice to do what they wish, and if the choice of getting someone to help me when I believed that there was no other way, then that is my belief.