It’s about f’ing time. He never should’ve been there to begin with.
ack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed “Dr. Death” after claiming he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to die.
Smiling broadly, Kevorkian said the release was “one of the high points of life” as he walked out with his attorney and “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace.
Inmates inside the prison had been milling about all morning for a glimpse of Kevorkian, while reporters and television vans greeted him on the outside with cameras and questions.
Throughout the 1990s, Kevorkian challenged authorities to make his actions legal — or try to stop him. He burned state orders against him and showed up at court in costume.
“You think I’m going to obey the law? You’re crazy,” he said in 1998 shortly before he was accused — and then convicted — of murder after injecting lethal drugs into Thomas Youk, 52, an Oakland County man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
That conviction earned Kevorkian a 10- to 25-year sentence for second degree murder, but he earned time off his sentence for good behavior.
See, I already know what you’re thinking because I’m mad cool and psychic. You’re thinking, “But Vinny, you fought for a month for doctors to do everything they could to try and let Terri Schiavo live. Why in God’s name would you think Kevorkian was doing the right thing?”
And I would laugh at you for having very little intelligence and not being able to perceive subtle differences.
Terri Schiavo was killed by her “husband” and the courts. There is no proof she ever wanted to die. There is no proof that she didn’t want to live in the state she was in. In fact, the only “proof” anyone ever seemed to have was colloquial bullshit along the lines of “who would want to live that way?” She had no living well, no DNR orders that she filed herself, and no evidence has ever been presented by her “husband” that she actually wanted to die should she be incapacitated.
People who visited Dr. Kevorkian, however, knew exactly what they were doing, who he was, and what he was about. Dr. Kevorkian’s consistent position is that if someone is suffering they should have the choice of whether or not they want to live and if they decide they want to die, it’s up to people like him to help them do it in the most humane and painless way possible. I don’t agree with people wanting to end their own life, but I do think that’s a personal choice. Someone ending their life has no effect on me or my life, and as far as I’m concerned, as long as you aren’t hurting the life of others, do what you want.
And that, dear readers, is exactly why I think Kevorkian never should’ve been convicted in the first place. The idea that states even have the balls to legislate against a right for someone to end their own life is repugnant to everything I stand for.
Hopefully now you can understand the differences.