Culture of Death icon to be released from prison June 1st (CNA)

[Catholic_Press]

LANSING, MICH., May 29 (CNA) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an infamous foe of the pro-life movement, is scheduled to be released from prison on June 1st raising questions about his plans once he is back in public. The 79 year-old was sent to prison in 1999 after he was convicted of killing a patient on national television.

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[stbruno]

lifenews.com/bio2107.html

Prolife groups are preparing for the onslaught of news hounds who are predicted to publicize this event…maybe even live. Personally, I am disgusted by the mentality of secularized society to have made this man into an icon. Haven’t we learned anything yet? The fact, that he is out of jail when he is linked to 130 deaths boggles my mind too. More reasons to pray.

 

[udoc89]

I have no doubt he will be up to his old tricks in no time, with predictably tragic results. I watched a documentary about him once years ago. I believe he fancies himself an artist. As I recall, all of his paintings were ghoulish representations of death.

 

[zootjeff]

I have no doubt he will be up to his old tricks in no time, with predictably tragic results. I watched a documentary about him once years ago. I believe he fancies himself an artist. As I recall, all of his paintings were ghoulish representations of death.

He says that he will work to get his techniques legalized, but won’t brake the law doing it. Oregon has an assisted suicide law now and other doctors do the process without going to jail now…

You can make the argument that keeping someone alive on a machine is as much playing God as putting them to sleep.

The natural way is through pain and suffering.

 

[lizaanne]

I heard a great quote this morning on the radio:

Paraphrased: “Kevorkian claims to have “helped” over 70 people. What serial killer gets out after only eight years?”

It’s disgusting. And it makes me embarassed to even be in the same state as this person. He should have spent the rest of his life in prison.

~Liza

 

[udoc89]

Yes, Oregon does have legalized assisted suicide, as does the Netherlands. Abortion is legal in all 50 states. It does not follow, of course, that because a procedure is “legal,” it is necessarily moral.

I would argue that prolonging a life (to include palliative care consisting of hydration, nutrition, and medications for relief of pain) is consistent with cooperating with God, rather than “playing God.” To deliberately end a life–regardless of whether or not we (or the actual person doing the suffering) regard that life as useless, is not morally licit.