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May 27, 2006

'Dr. Death' Has Second Thoughts About Assisting Suicides

Especially now that it's him that is dying. I remember a few years back when ol' Dr. Kevorkian was on a tear. People would fly in from all over the country and he'd hook 'em up to his (patented no less!) suicide machine, video tape them through the dying process, bag 'em up, and drive their remains to the Wayne County (Detroit area) Coroners Office. And then get arrested.

The Detroit PD and the DA’s Office would huff and puff and certain "community leaders" would piss & moan for the state to "do something" (the impetuous for most nanny state overreaching too, eh?). Kevorkian would be arrested, arraigned, bailed, tried, and invariably it seemed, acquitted.

Dr. K's downfall came when the smart, cocky, and politically ambitious trial lawyer who used him as a catspaw for his own political agenda Geoffrey Fieger dumped him to run for governor of Michigan in 1998. Before whole the "Dr. Death" thing no one outside the ambulance-chasing world of the personal injury lawsuit specialty ever heard of him. And after his crushing defeat in the 1998 election, we had hoped to never hear of him again too, but like a bad penny Fieger won't go away.

As for Dr. K who languishes in prison? "Physician heal thyself,” would seem to apply here I would say. But it seems Dr. K isn’t through living yet! Go figger that, eh?

I admired, albeit grudgingly, what Kevorkian was trying to accomplish, (i.e. establishing ultimate right of "self ownership" by being able to terminate one's life as a matter of principle and law) but that was largely thwarted by Fieger's exploitation and Kevorkian's creepy and insensitive morbidity. Which was in hindsight prolly another piece of bad advice from Fieger. And so it goes.

You can read of Kevorkian's plight here.

Posted by Ali Massoud at May 27, 2006 08:46 AM

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