Jack Kevorkian

The movie You Don’t Know Jack is about the work and life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an advocate for physician-assisted suicide. He fought to legalize euthanasia for patients suffering from terminal illnesses and debilitating pain. Although I don’t support the way Kevorkian went about choosing those he helped, I do support physician-assisted suicide fully, as well as euthanasia, when backed by laws that ensure the process isn’t abused. With a second opinion and an evaluation proving the patient is mentally capable of making and understanding the choice to end his own life, patients should have the right to make this choice.

“A serial mercy killer” (The Right To Die, 80). This is what some would define what Kevorkian did. Kevorkian, however does not feel this way. He performs his acts for the greater good in his eyes. However, he never hesitated to try any other treatments that could result in the patient’s improved health, whether it be antibiotics, or even experimental drug maintenance programs (The Right To Die, 82). He feels that medically assisted suicide is an essential option to those that are incurable and dying (The Right To Die, 83). Kevorkian’s main concern for his terminal patients was their comfort and confidence in their decision. He explains the death his patient’s experienced as being “like a painless heart attack in a deep sleep”(The Right To Die,

The promotion of physician assisted suicide has sparked a debate throughout the world. From my point of view, assisted suicide is doctors assist patients who could not endure the pain of diseases and are voluntarily given lethal amount of substances resulting in death. However, physician assisted suicide might be considered to be deviant in many countries currently due to the religions, laws and the negative image. Also, the physicians who assist their patients to suicide might be labelled as "killers". For instance, Jack Kevorkian, who was known for successfully assisting more than 130 patients to end their lives, was charged with second degree murder and was

Jack Kevorkian was a doctor who assisted terminally ill patients to commit suicide. He believed that they had the right to die in an appropriate way; to die with dignity. He therefore invented a machine (called thanatron—a Greek word for death machine) which could take away his patients’ lives painlessly and efficiently, all they had to do was to push a button and their lives would be ended by either deadly injection or carbon monoxide poisoning. There had been at least one hundred patients who tried and died in this method. Dr. Kevorkian was charged several times with murder in these deaths. Lucky for him, a judge dismissed one of his charges because there was no evidence of murder. Jury did not find him guilty either. Nevertheless, he

Death is inevitable, but do we ride it out until the bitter end or chose a quick and painless death? Many people are against the idea of physician-assisted suicide and others aren’t such as Faye Girish writer of the article “Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?” Published in 1999 in Insight on the News, she argues that the legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide will allow those who wish to die a peaceful way to do so. Faye establishes the building of her credibility with plausible facts and statistics, great emotional appeal, and personal sources. However, throughout the article several times she attempts to use pity to guilt people into agreeing with her argument, uses celebrities as sources, and doesn’t cite some of her sources questioning her credibility and finally, her argument.

Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in jail he was released from jail in 8 years because of good behavior. Many wonder if that was the right thing to do because he did kill so many people. A question arose in the interview on if he should stay in jail longer? Karen comments, “Personal opinion yes. He shoulda got life.” Karen believes he should have got life in jail because of his actions as a pathologist. Dr. Kevorkian was only convicted of the death of Thomas Youk and with his good behavior is what contributed to Dr. Kevorkian getting out of jail so early. Also, with him only being convicted of second degree murder instead of first murder he was able to have a shorter sentence. Karen’s view and opinion of Dr. Kevorkian stay consistent with all of her views on the actions of Dr.

It is a judge’s duty to uphold the law and ensure proper procedure and due process are followed during court proceedings. “Although extralegal factors are not supposed to influence a judge’s sentencing decision, studies show they invariably do” (Bohm & Haley, 2011). Ideally judges would remain unbiased, however, this is impossible as an interpretation of the law demands an individual’s perspective. This is why the higher courts, like the Supreme Court, are composed of several judges. Different interpretations are expected. Bohm and Haley explained some of the characteristics most likely to influence a judge’s decision during sentencing are “their prior experiences both in and out of the courtroom, their biases concerning various crimes, their emotional reactions and prejudices toward the defendants, and their own personalities” (2011).

In a single sentence Smith (2011) uses Kevorkian’s objective of organ harvesting and medical research in an obscure and biased context. By linking the reputation of “the doctor of death”, Jack Kevorkian, and his famous “right to die” campaign, with his support of organ harvesting and medical experiments in the article, At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope, Smith (2011) was able to draw on the emotional reactions of people who, when it comes to the issue of death, are highly polarized. Regardless of what issue of death society is facing, be it abortion, capital punishment, or assisted suicide, the vast majority has openly strong opinions that are a direct reflection of their ethics. In this case Smith (2011) publicly used the well-known controversial

Was Dr. Jack Kevorkian justified in using physician-assisted suicide to help more than 130 patients die with dignity? He fulfilled patients’ suffering from terminal illnesses using his self-devised suicide machine. Legalizing Euthanasia will benefit the patient especially those who has been trying to bear the unbearable suffering.

I watched Emily a 24 year old girl who says she battles a monster inside that make her cause self-harm and cutting herself. She went through a series of doctors before the decision was made to get euthanized her mom wasn’t too fond of the decision but now she see the pain her daughter goes through she said she going to go through it with her daughter establish a support . We all have dark moments and desperate measure to make them go away but sometimes the pain is incomparable. Jack Kevorkian has become a well-known advocate for physician assisted suicide he has helped over 130 people will ill illness kill themselves between 1990 and 1999 not many people agree with him because they think since he worked in the medicine field its very inappropriate

Dr.Jack Kevorkian was A Famous physician who helped numerous patients to commit suicide. According to the article entitled “Assisted suicide right to die proponents split” I learned that “Mr. Kevorkian became national when he first helped 54-year old Janet Adkins kill herself with his hand made death machine through lethal injection” (Tim Devaney,1)

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was charged with second-degree murder and served an eight year prison sentence. (Fridstein. 1). This accomplished physician graduated from the University of Michigan with an impressively high IQ. He was a writer, inventor, movie producer and classical composer. (Kevorkian). Why would a man so intelligent and successful end up in jail for murder? Well believe or not he purposely challenged the legal system in a one man crusade to ignite a national discussion on the subjects of assisted suicide, Euthanasia and one’s constitutional right to choose. Euthanasia is a medical procedure that involves a person being induced with a soothing, relaxing medicine that allows them a peaceful passing. Dr. Kevorkian’s attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, summed it up best when he said, "We’re just talking about the right not of children and not of mentally incompetent people but the right of mentally competent adults to make decisions about their own bodies as to how much suffering they have to undergo.” (Kevorkian). Euthanasia is not for people experiencing temporary illness or unhappiness. It’s for people who are imprisoned by their own unbearable physical pain for the rest of their lives with no way out. Is it fair to not give those people a choice? Is it fair to make them slowly deteriorate while losing their dignity? I think not. That is why I support euthanasia being legalized, “Dying is not a crime.” (Fridstein. 1).

People have different ideas of a good essay. Essays that are interesting to the readers. For an essay to be considered a good essay, it has to be entertaining, the readers should be able to picture an image in their mind. For many others, they may have different ideas about what a good writer is. For example, I don’t like it when writers give out too much information. They will describe things and go on and on about it. Others might like this, but I don’t like it when the writers do this. Most writers have one of the qualities that I think makes a good writer. They don’t have to have all three qualities for me to think that it’s a good essay.

. A good example for laws concerning euthanasia is Jack Kevorkian. He was a physician in Oakland County, Michigan. He came to the aid of those who suffered from medical conditions by assisting them in ending their lives. One case of his in particular made headlines in 1990, Janet Atkins. She was a 54 years old patient who recently found out she had Alzheimer’s. She had previously heard of Kevorkian’s suicide machine that he had named the Thanatron. It used a fatal dose of fluids, starting with a saline solution, followed by a painkiller, then finally a lethal dose of poisonous potassium chloride. She wanted him to use the suicide machine on her. She was a supporter of voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill, even before she found out about

Many of you probably haven’t heard of Jacob Kevorkian. He strongly supported physician assisted suicide. He gained the nickname of “doctor death” for helping over 130 terminal patients meet an end peacefully- sounds horrific, no? A moral travesty?