Looks like the controversial Dr. Jack Kevorkian has went to his final resting place. Not sure how I feel about his work but he held to his convictions in spite of arrests and harassment. I guess I always felt it was a persons right to make their own decisions.
So, How'd he do it?
Was it a D.I.Y. or natural causes?
So, How'd he do it?
CNN says a blood clot so I assume this would classified as natural causes.
He Ran Out of Life
He drank a Coke after consuming too many Pop Rocks...;-)
> I always felt it was a persons right to make their own decisions.
Ditto.
Ditto 2.
jud
Was he any different than hospice? Maybe less prolonged?
That's what a living will is all about, laying out your intentions, whether you want to just be left alone when you are so far gone, or whether you want to be punched full of hoses, tubes and wires and kept alive like a lump of flesh.
Well-intentioned stupidity and intervention often leads to suffering in either case.
The night my mom made her final turn for the worse, I got a call in the middle of the night from the hospice facility that they had been trying to call my dad for instructions. I had to drive across town and wake him up so he could call them and make the decision whether to resuscitate or not. That's not the way these things should be done. Think it through when it can be done relatively calmly.
I've lost a few elderly loved ones over the last few years, and in several cases, while they were fighters, had made recoveries in the past, and so on - but in the last days, for example, while at peace and relatively comfortable, would just stop eating.
Sometimes people know when it's their time, and there's no sense in prolonging it. A person's wish for "DNR" should be respected.
I read that headline this morning and it reminded me of Edward G Robinson checking out in the Charlot Heston movie Soylent Green. Not a bad way to go....except for the soylent green part. But yeah....I wouldn't like it very much if the government gets involved and in the way of the time of my demise.
Ditto 3
Carl
It is always said that "we are a free country". How about giving human beings the freedom to make their own decisions.
I'm sure some would say that the penalty for someone caught trying to end their own life should be execution.
I don't have any data to back this up, but Kevorkian's critics say that he went overboard and assisted severely depressed people to commit suicide that could have potentially been treated and recovered from that condition. Severely depressed people often are not able to see any light at the end of the tunnel and see suicide as the only way to alleviate their pain, but a doctor should be able to objectively review those cases and assist suicide as a rare last resort treatment.
