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Post by bernardjenkins on May 31, 2007 18:35:50 GMT -5
Kevorkian’s release stirs up grief and gratitude Families of doctor’s former patients divided on nature of his crime. The debate lives on. Should our society allow its citizen who are terminally ill the privilege of picking the place, time and method of their death? www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18965904/ |
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Post by bernardjenkins on Jun 2, 2007 14:47:57 GMT -5
Kevorkian is terminally ill with Hepatitis C, which he contracted while doing research on blood transfusions in Vietnam[5] and is expected to die within a year. Kevorkian had applied for a pardon, parole, or commutation by the parole board and Governor Jennifer Granholm due to his failing health.
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Post by bernardjenkins on Jun 2, 2007 14:49:02 GMT -5
Dr. Death
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Death is a moniker that has been adopted by, or an epithet that has been applied to, multiple people:
Aribert Heim, an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals.
Jack Kevorkian, an American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s.
Philip Nitschke, an Australian doctor who campaigned for legal assisted suicide in the Northern Territory and subsequently assisted four people in doing so.
Jayant Patel, an India-trained doctor who is accused of gross incompetence leading to the deaths of many patients in Queensland, Australia.
Harold Shipman - British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history.
Steve Williams, a professional wrestler.
Dr. Abdullah (AKA Abdullah Abdullah), foreign minister in Hamid Karzai's Afghan government, 2001-2006. He received the moniker due to his service, under abysmal conditions, as a refugee camp medic and later field surgeon in the Afghan Civil War, not because he was considered cruel or murderous.
Ayman al-Zawahiri Egyptian doctor, and prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda.
James Grigson, a forensic pathologist employed by the state of Texas who was notorious for advocating the death penalty in murder trials, including those of defendants whom he had never interviewed, some of whom were later acquitted on appeal. He was expelled from the American Psychiatric Association in 1995.
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