HBO Movie on Assisted Suicide Advocate Jack Kevorkian Premiers Saturday

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HBO Movie on Assisted Suicide Advocate Jack Kevorkian Premiers Saturday

Washington, DC – The new HBO movie glorifying the life of assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian starring Al Pacino premiers on Saturday. You Don’t Know Jack, the biopic on the man who was eventually imprisoned for killing a disabled patient on national television, is already drawing criticism.

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Wow, another Hollywood biopic glorifying the life of a person of questionable moral character. Color me surprised.

I think I’ll pass on this one.
 
He was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on FOX yesterday. Kevorkian stated the majority of his victims were Catholic. He said none ever cancelled and wanted to “get on with it”. I wonder what the relatives of the deceased think about him.

Goodman and Pacino are now added to my Susan Sarandon list. No longer support movies by purchasing tickets promoting these people.
 
In an interview on a Detroit TV news program, Dr. Kevorkian referred to himself as a reformer. Reformer of what?

Assisted suicide goes against the idea of helping the sick and dying. You don’t help the dying to die. Not this way.

After working for almost 10 years in a large hospital, I can’t understand how anyone can provide the means to end a life in a setting designed to help people.

I’ll avoid this one.

God bless,
Ed
 
edwest2 said:
In an interview on a Detroit TV news program, Dr. Kevorkian referred to himself as a reformer. Reformer of what?
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Reformer of bedside manner it would seem. Kevorkian, from bedside to graveside stat. This man( I just can’t refer to him as a doctor) represents a total perversion of the medical profession.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Wow, another Hollywood biopic glorifying the life of a person of questionable moral character. Color me surprised.
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“Questionable moral character”? I don’t think there’s any question about it. The guy is a serial killer. The only difference between Jack the Dripper and guys like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Daumer is that (in a world saturated by modernism) Jack has a more seductive act.
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Reformer of bedside manner it would seem. Kevorkian, from bedside to graveside stat. This man( I just can’t refer to him as a doctor) represents a total perversion of the medical profession.
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I think Kevorkian was (justly) deprived of his medical license many years ago.

He is not only a total perversion of the medical profession; he is a perversion of humanity. His oil paintings, which spring from his twisted mentality, are downright sick.
 
I should have perhaps given the money to charity or saved it but I didn’t and I feel a little bad about that. But I did find that on my cable system, when you cancel HBO, you can obtain for the same amount a nice package of hi def sports channels that make evenings so much less morally challenging. I am so much more satisfied with my television. Think it over and vote with your wallet.
 
Biggie said:
… you can obtain for the same amount a nice package of hi def sports channels that make evenings so much less morally challenging. I am so much more satisfied with my television. Think it over and vote with your wallet.
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Aren’t some sports (i.e. boxing and to a lesser degree football) morally problematic?
 
ThomasToo said:
Aren’t some sports (i.e. boxing and to a lesser degree football) morally problematic?
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As compared to, say, euthanasia? That’s a hard call.

So if boxing and football present problems for you, you probably can’t live in my neighborhood. Sorry.
 
Biggie said:
As compared to, say, euthanasia? That’s a hard call.

So if boxing and football present problems for you, you probably can’t live in my neighborhood. Sorry.
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As opposed to, say, giving the money you were spending on HBO to charity or just not spending it on TV.

‘Civilta Cattolica (Christian Civilization), in its edition scheduled to come out Saturday, called professional boxing a “legalized form of attempted murder”’ (“Vatican-backed publication condemns boxing,” 10/25/2005).
 
I have to admit. I have a list of things in my mind, and once I can no longer do any of them I plan to take myself out of the game. Odds are I’ll die before I can no longer do the things I have in mind. But if it came to be, I’d look for a Kevorkian or take a trip to the Pacific Northwest or Europe.
 
Lutheranteach said:
I have to admit. I have a list of things in my mind, and once I can no longer do any of them I plan to take myself out of the game. Odds are I’ll die before I can no longer do the things I have in mind. But if it came to be, I’d look for a Kevorkian or take a trip to the Pacific Northwest or Europe.
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And is eternal, unending, everlasting torment really preferable to the temporary agonies of earth, however painful?
 
On January 22, 1975, William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote a column about Charles Pinckney Luckey, minister of the Congregational Church in Middlebury, Connecticut, who died, at the age of fifty, within two months of being stricken and ravaged by Kreutzfeld-Jakob disease. This excerpt from his last message to his friends should be required reading in an age in which so many of us would rather kill ourselves than unite our sufferings to the Cross.
What does the Christian do when he stands over the abyss of his own death and the doctors have told him that his disease is ravaging his brain and that his whole personality may be warped, twisted, changed? Then does the Christian have any right to self-destruction, especially when the Christian knows that the changed personality may bring out the horrible beast in himself? Well, after 48 hours of self-searching study it comes to me that ultimately and finally the Christian has to always view life as a gift from God, and every precious drop of life was not earned but was a grace, lovingly bestowed upon the individual by his Creator and so it is not his to pick up and smash. And so I find the position of suicide untenable, not because I lack the courage to blow out my brains but rather because of my deep, abiding faith in the Creator who put the brains there in the first place. And now the result is that I lie here blind on my bed and trust in the succeeding, loving power of that great Creator who knew and loved me before I was fashioned in my mother’s womb.
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Victorious said:
He is not only a total perversion of the medical profession; he is a perversion of humanity. His oil paintings, which spring from his twisted mentality, are downright sick.
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I agree Victorious, I’ve just seen some of his oil paintings, they seem to me to be the product of a deeply troubled mind. Painted by anyone they would be horrible but by one who claims to be a Dr. deeply, deeply disturbing.

Lutheranteach instead of a trip to Europe have some British poetry instead.
Dylan Thomas:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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ThomasToo said:
As opposed to, say, giving the money you were spending on HBO to charity or just not spending it on TV.

‘Civilta Cattolica (Christian Civilization), in its edition scheduled to come out Saturday, called professional boxing a “legalized form of attempted murder”’ (“Vatican-backed publication condemns boxing,” 10/25/2005).
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You failed to read my original post making this point.

My favorite high school teacher was a priest - and a boxer. Do they still say get a life?
 
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