Useless Headline Of The Day
The headline reads:
ABC News: Dying 'Dr. Death' Has Second Thoughts About Assisting Suicides.
I read this headline and assumed that Kervorkian, aka Dr. Death, was having a change of mind about the concept of assisted suicide, however, a reading of the story makes it clear that is not the case, he only regrets getting caught performing assisted suicide.
Well, DUH! Why is that news? I think we all knew that after enough time in jail the homicidial physician would decide that he did not like prison life.
""He did what he did, and it brought it to public awareness [of physician-assisted suicide]," said Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth. "He now realizes that having performed it when it was against the law, wasn't the, probably, appropriate way to go about it."
Paging, Dr. Obvious.
I'm now of the belief that one need not be the sharpest scapel in the tray to become a doctor. The old man is trying to get out of prison due to liver failure. He doesn't want to die in prison. I can't quite explain my reaction, but sense a bit of irony in his pleadings.
'He Gets Depressed at Times'....... doctors had told Kevorkian he had less than a year to live........... Hepatitis C,.........Kevorkian's liver enzyme levels were three to four times above normal ........Kevorkian has requested a commutation of his sentence
and,
"Stands by His Position, but Wouldn't Do it AgainWhile Kevorkian stands firmly by the cause of physician-assisted suicide..... he would never perform it again,.....
Even on himself? Not that I am promoting the idea. But, isn't that the irony? When others were dying he wanted to kill them. Now that he is dying he wants his freedom. Or is the plea for freedom just a ruse so that he gain access to the tools to off himself? Best to leave him where we can monitor him. And otherwise forget that he exists.
