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03 Jun 2011, 8:50 am

Assisted suicide advocate Kevorkian dies at age 83

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian— embraced as a compassionate crusader and reviled as a murderous crank — died early Friday morning.

Known as Dr. Death even before launching his fierce advocacy and practice of assisted suicides, Kevorkian, 83, died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., where he had been hospitalized with kidney and heart problems.

His attorney, Mayer Morganroth, said it appears Kevorkian suffered a pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart. With Kevorkian were his niece Ava Janus and Morganroth.....





btw...A deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are what put me in the hospital a few months ago.....


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03 Jun 2011, 8:55 am

I saw the movie about him, he was a great guy.


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03 Jun 2011, 8:59 am

R.I.P.

I considered Doc a hero.

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03 Jun 2011, 9:25 am

ruveyn wrote:
R.I.P.

I considered Doc a hero.


+1 Brilliant man and stood by his principles no matter what.



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03 Jun 2011, 10:45 am

I don't see him as really standing by his principles - after all, he did die of natural causes...


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03 Jun 2011, 11:00 am

DeaconBlues wrote:
I don't see him as really standing by his principles - after all, he did die of natural causes...


He thought if someone was in pain they sould be allowed the choice to end their life. He made the choice to tough it out that was his choice



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03 Jun 2011, 12:34 pm

V001 wrote:
DeaconBlues wrote:
I don't see him as really standing by his principles - after all, he did die of natural causes...


He thought if someone was in pain they sould be allowed the choice to end their life. He made the choice to tough it out that was his choice


His relatives say he slipped away with no apparent pain. An easy death as these things go.

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03 Jun 2011, 1:01 pm

Phonic wrote:
I saw the movie about him, he was a great guy.


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03 Jun 2011, 5:03 pm

Phonic wrote:
I saw the movie about him, he was a great guy.



i hope you enjoyed the movie. i was glad to be a part of such a great film.
and i am glad to have met Jack...he seemed cool to me.


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10 Jun 2011, 1:07 am

I have trouble understanding why there is so much controversy about him, when the people requesting his services did so voluntarily.


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10 Jun 2011, 3:28 am

A Nazi Eugenicist doctor who put people down with lethal injections. The law clearly states: "Thou shall not kill".
Doctor Death was a cold blooded murderer.



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10 Jun 2011, 6:26 am

Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
A Nazi Eugenicist doctor who put people down with lethal injections. The law clearly states: "Thou shall not kill".
Doctor Death was a cold blooded murderer.


If people have the right to defend their lives, they have the right to end their lives and that includes engaging the consenting help of others to do so.

And the commandment is "Thou shalt not murder". In the Bible God ordered the Israelites to wipe out the Amalekites. Genocide plain and simple.

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