Assisted Suicide Crusader Jack Kevorkian Dies in Hospital

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Assisted Suicide Crusader Jack Kevorkian Dies in Hospital

Detroit, MI – Jack Kevorkian, the infamous assisted suicide advocate who served years in prison for killing a disabled man on national television, died in a hospital today after being admitted for kidney problems and pneumonia.

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I pray for him. He’s probably a great guy who went astray! He was probably guided by what seemed to him to be truly mercy killings. Not wanting to see people suffer was probably his guiding ethic.
 
He’s meeting justice and mercy now. You have to hope that Kevorkian really had good intentions in his heart, and that the Lord understood it that way.
 
Never made any sense to me that he didn’t take his own advice. But of course the death advocates never do.

May God have mercy on him.
 
In Matthew 5:19, Jesus said to the crowd, “Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Is mercy killing not the same as killing and ending one’s life? I know that Judas ended his own life out of guilt but I don’t know if he asked forgiveness for what he had done. Nevertheless, I believe that only God can take one’s life as he has the power and authority to do so as we lift up everything to him, our problems, our disappointments, our joys and trials in this life and thank him for this life, no matter how imperfect it can be coz, anyway, life is temporary, and the more I trust in him, the more a see blessings in this life. In Proverbs 37:4, “Delight yourself with the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” I believe that the more I follow the words of God in Jesus, the more I have peace in myself. I as much as possible, boast only of his words, not anything material, I believe that with forgiveness in our hearts, with humility and faith, we have hope.Further in 1 John 3:13-15, “Do not be surprised my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and know that no murderer has eternal life in him.” I pray for guidance as I cannot reconcile mercy killing with love as only God has power over life and death. As long as there is faith and love in in Jesus, there is hope, for with God, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). May Jack’s soul rest in peace as I pray too for his forgiveness and hope for those who suffer:)[SIGN]Godspeed.[/SIGN].
 
May his soul rest in peace and may God have mercy on him.
 
I know people in the medical industry, and they all are torn apart when someone in extreme, unremitting agony begs and pleads to be put out of their pain. My own sister and father turned their backs on God altogether.

Dr. K. was just one of the people who for a variety of reasons, could not justify not “helping” someone who was shortly to die anyway, to escape this agony. He was misguided but he did it out of compassion. I will pray to God to have mercy on his soul.

On a good note - if anyone would know how and have connections to end his suffering early, it was Dr. K. But he chose to live out his natural life without taking the suicide route. Clearly, he had some grasp of the value of life and suffering.

He was willing to go to jail for his beliefs, so he truly and completely believed in his cause. I like to think the Lord of all mercy will take pity on his soul. If he had the grace of faith, he might have thought and behaved differently.
 
I look at his bizarre, creepy artwork and can’t help but think there was a deeply sinister side to this man. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
 
We as a society, and I wonder if perhaps as Catholics as well, have lost understanding of the redemptive and shared nature of suffering in terms of the Body of Christ.

The end of Blessed John Paul II’s life and the sacrifice of martyrs like St. Maura and St. Timothy as well as that of Charles Lwanga and his companions of which today is their memorial, are wonderful conterpoints to Jack Kevorkian’s life and testimony to the belief in redemptive nature of suffering denied by so many in secular society and non-Catholic religions.

May God have mercy on his soul and on ours.

-Tim-
 
I agree with some of the previous postings in that I think Dr. K believed that he was doing something good. He wasn’t feeding a compulsion to kill people. While I know suicided is against Church teaching, when I see some people suffering so much, I can’t help but think about how much they could avoid. However, I know it isn’t right and would never encourage it, I certainly see why he did it.

I’ll pray for his soul.
 
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He’s meeting justice and mercy now. You have to hope that Kevorkian really had good intentions in his heart, and that the Lord understood it that way.
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The Lord understands things in ways that we can not even begin to fathom.
 
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