Euthanasia...UPDATE: Dr. K set for June Parole

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by AXiD670
This article mentions her starting to diet her senior year in high school. She was 25 when she collapsed, so assuming her disorder developed when she first started dieting, that's about 8 years.

ETA: That article was written in 2000, and at that time most of the $700,000 remained. Of course, that was five years ago.

ETFA: Here is an article published last week that discusses the money and that there is only about $40,000 remaining.

This is what I was thinking when people started saying that the husband was motivated by money. I couldn't imagine that there was very much left.

Thank you for the link. Eight years with an eating disorder with that result; that's something scary. I wonder if any people who know others with eating disorders have referenced this situation.

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by KSigkid
This is what I was thinking when people started saying that the husband was motivated by money. I couldn't imagine that there was very much left.

Thank you for the link. Eight years with an eating disorder with that result; that's something scary. I wonder if any people who know others with eating disorders have referenced this situation.

I just posted this article in another Terri Schiavo thread, but I'll post it here as well. It mentions that she was 200 pounds when she graduated from high school, but at 26 she weighed 110 pounds, and her husband could see her bones when she took off her shirt.

[strivingsf]

In light of this case, here is a link to complete a living will so your wishes will be honored if you are unable to make decisions regarding medical treatment.

http://www.freep.com/pdf/2005/03/23/livingwill.pdf

[nikki1920]

I was surfing my favorite newspaper site and found
this . I havent read all of this yet, but thought it might be of interest to our legal eagles..

[Little32]

Originally posted by ladygreek
Eating disorder? That would explain the sudden heart attack at that age.

Oh then the irony of being kept alive on a feeding tube.

This is exactly what I thought when I found out that bit of information. It is unfortunate and ironic.

[AKA2D '91]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/...vorkian_parole


By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer
42 minutes ago



LANSING, Mich. - After more than eight years in prison, a frail Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June with a promise that he won't assist in any more suicides, a prison spokesman said Wednesday.


Leo Lalonde, the corrections spokesman, would not provide further details.

Kevorkian, once the nation's most vocal advocate of assisted suicide for the terminally ill, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, Oakland County man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Michigan banned assisted suicide in 1998.

Youk's death was videotaped and shown on CBS' "60 Minutes."

Kevorkian, who claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s, called it a mercy killing.

Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian's attorney, said this summer that Kevorkian, now 78, was suffering from hepatitis C and diabetes, that his weight had dropped to 113 pounds and that he had less than a year to live.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered corrections authorities to carry out an independent medical evaluation of Kevorkian, but did not commute the retired pathologist's sentence, as Morganroth had hoped.

Kevorkian has always been eligible for parole on June 1, 2007, and will now be released on that date, Lalonde said. He directed calls seeking further comment to Russ Marlan, another state corrections spokesman who did not immediately return calls Wednesday.

If Kevorkian is released on June 1, he will have spent close to 3,000 days in prison since being sentenced in April 1999.

He has promised he would not assist in a suicide if he was released from prison.