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Kevorkian free—except for his fee — 8 Comments

  1. When society concerns itself more with entropy and death than it does with life, renewal, and strength in Iraq and America… you got a serious problem, Neo.

    We all got a serious problem.

  2. If we lose Iraq, it’s Kevorkian’s fault. After all, he was the one who pulled the funding plug on Vietnam.

  3. He really should have rotted in prison. He’s not some “right to end life” advocate nor is he a death with dignity practitioner. In short he’s a twisted sort who is dangerously fascinated with the process of life fading into death and propagated his “practice” multiple times. There’s a label for this sort of inhumanity. I believe they are most often referred to as serial killers.

  4. The way to combat this horrendous speaker fee is simply to refuse to go to his lectures. If a group is sponsoring him, refuse to attend; ask friends to refuse. You only get the high speaker fees when people will come to the meetings. If no one is interested in what you have to say, you no longer command the high speaker fees. (Can anyone say, “Free market”?) In fact, if only the Hemlock Society wants to hear from the Good Doctor, that pretty well limits the number of engagements he can do, AND the number of 6-figure speaker fees he can demand.

  5. Neo, please do not blame the “health care system” or docs fearful of prescribing the right drugs in adequate doses for pain control. As an oncologist, I can tell you of the legions of primary care docs who simply do not know the rudiments of severe pain control, and seldom deal with folks in severe chronic pain. But it is not the system, whether medical or legal, that’s at fault. Look at hospices, that prescribe opiates like candy; and in my part of the country, look at billboards for pain management ‘clinics’ along the Interstate, which I suspect are thinly veiled, and legal, venues for getting opiates to addicts. Billboards! Getting opiates to people who truly need them does not require negotiating tough hurdles.

    You are quite right about Kevorkian, though. He is a lifelong necrophiliac, though likely asexual. He should not have been released from prison. And he is not alone, which is a strong reason to oppose legalized euthanasia.

  6. I really like this post- well done.

    I would only add that Kevorkian seems to be a less constrained Peter Singer- that is to say, there is an undercurrent of a ‘quality of life committee’ that certain elements in our society wish to see.

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