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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:27 am Post subject: Jack Kevorkian is dead |
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Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for second-degree murder, died early Friday in a Detroit-area hospital after battling respiratory and renal problems, his lawyer confirmed to CBC News.
Mayer Morganroth said in a telephone interview from Birmingham, Mich., that he and Kevorkian's niece were by the 83-year-old's side when he died in Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak.
"I was there all last night until he passed away," Morganroth said.
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Can't say I was ever a huge fan. Number one, I didn't support his cause, and I say this as someone with a close relative who suffered from a debilitating and painful illness.
Secondly, he wasn't exactly the best spokesman for that cause. In the interviews I saw, he came off as a bit of a maniacal crank. I also remember hearing questionable things about the way he carried out some of his assisted suicides(which gets back to my original objections to the procedure, ie. it's too open to abuse and malpractice).
I was actually a bigger fan of his artwork. Interesting themes, and well executed. But looking at those paintings, you can kind of see why I was somewhat distrustful of his motivation for being involved with suicide. I suspect it proceeded from morbid obsessions, not humanitarian concerns. |
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On the other hand
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Nearer My God to Thee
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This depicts how most human beings feel about dying -- at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss. Most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death. We contemplate and face it with great apprehension, profound fear, and terror. Sparing no financial or physical sacrifice, pleading wantonly and unashamedly, clutching any hope of salvation through medicine or prayer. How forbidding that dark abyss! How stupendous the yearning to dodge its gaping orifice. How inexorable the engulfment. Yet, below are the disintegrating hulks of those who have gone before; they have made the insensible transition and wonder what the fuss is all about. After all, how excruciating can nothingness be?
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catman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| A courageous man. |
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northway
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| He was a terrible spokesman for a cause I support. |
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