Dr. Death's New Career Path
Filed under: Old People > Politik
Assisted-suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian is running for a Congressional seat in Michigan, according to reports.
His priority if elected will be fighting for the right to die via the Ninth Amendment.
No surprise there!
Kevorkian says the Ninth Amendment protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the Constitution. The way he sees it, the Ninth protects a person’s choice to die through assisted suicide or to avoid wearing a seat belt.
Kevorkian claims to have helped at least 130 people die from 1990 until 1998.
He was released from state prison last year after serving eight years for helping a 52-year-old man with Lou Gehrig’s disease, die in 1998. He was convicted of second-degree murder the following year.
Kervorkian also said the government is tyrannical, “You’ve been trained to obey it, not fight for it because the tyrant doesn’t like that.”
The old guy better have a lot more fight in him! He's 79 years old and just now getting into politics!
[Photo via Getty Images.]
I thought this would be about a reality show or something like that.
I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM IN A SECOND !!! HE IS HUMANE, LIKE WE ARE TO ANIMALS, BUT NOT TO PEOPLE. I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO HIRE HIM IF AND WHEN MY PARENTS WERE SUFFERING…..HE IS A DECENT MAN WITH A BIG HEART…..A REAL DOCTOR.
Euthinasia is a humane way to save people from so many agonizing deaths. I have had to watch so many loved ones die the long slow death that cancer offers..I say, give people the right to die with dignity!
i am so surprised to read all of those in support of dr. kurvorkian. i was waiting to rip everyone a new asshole..i guess i am NOT one of the few to agree with what he has done and hopefully will continue to do. i have witnessed terminal death first hand due to pancreatic cancer and now knowing how bad it can get, i totally support those you choose to end their pain. GO DOC!!!
Re: Danielle –
oh please!!! casting the first stone i see. how "christian" of you~!!!!
Dr. Kevorkian is my HERO.
Re: Anaxagoras – Hey …..get in line. I've got a few too in terminal need.
Re: NUBIAN GODDESS – thank you, beautiful nubian Goddess!!!! xoxoxo laura, white girl with a big, pretty round ass
hold on…..I live in michigan,and i'm NOT against what he did but one of the reasons he got out of jail early was that he said HE WAS DYING, and he said he didn't want to die in prison,he said he wanted to die in peace and not in jail..he said he was way too sick to "practice" his thing..now i agree with what he was doing,but whatever happened to his impending death??
This guy is an American hero. If you're dying from, say, cancer, you deserve the right to check out, not let religious right-wingnuts dictate that you draw every last horrible breath.
He's a modern day Saint or Hero
after he dies I hope to find a potato chip that looks like him
Re: butterfly soup –
Yes, but if we make it legal to assist others to die we are going to be opening a can of worms, do you know what I mean? Where does it all stop after after legalize it? How can it be properly controlled? I see a whole lot of people dying unnecessarily and a lot of concealed murders in the future. Laws are there for a reason.
hey i think they should give prisoners and pedo asss' the same option, die now or die later.maybe without the pain killers
also the guy who did choose to kill himself that this dr got charged for lived a very poor exsisance, he literally lost all his life and the only thing keeping him alive was drugs and feeding tubes. he literally had to do this or be a vegetable. if you got to the point where you couldnt eat or and only felt pain and confusion you would do this too.
dcotors allready have this option, called pallative care, where the body shuts down because all the morphine becomes toxic after a period of time. basically its a long term od.
i dont get how this man is scary, most people dont have the stomach for alot of people jobs, doesnt mean they are freaks.
in aus we have our own dr death, whos neglegance killed many people, id prefer this guy than our dr death any day. we have another dr called the butcher of bega who sexually assulted and chopped up women and killed babies practicing as a unliscensed gyno. now that guys scares me
Abortions legal. Why not allow this to?
Re: NUBIAN GODDESS – thank you, beautiful! my man is black and i love his beautiful black sistas. thank you so much and God bless you, lovely lady.
he's armenian im armenians may armenian succedd in whatever they do, screw haters and fat ass perez shut up
he helped kill 10 people, he,s been in jail, he,s old, he,s perfect by current standards practicly a political virgin, you go dr, death tha clintons could learn morals from you
Re: SW – My mother also fought ovarian cancer for two and a half years. The horror of watching someone you love die a slow, painful death cannot be explained to anyone that hasn't gone through it. I completely agree with everything you said and I am truly sorry for your loss.
Re: Anaxagoras – No one wants to hear how much you charge for head
good for him. if i knew i was going to be in horrible pain until the day i died, i would want that day to arrive as fast as possible. i would vote for him in a heartbeat.
When is he going to die already? Geez, I've been waiting a decade or so for this sick disgusting fart to just croak.
We need a new Detroit mayor he should run for the spot! GO Jack!
Re: lovealwaysPerez – YOU FIRST!
Re: mike – I'm the customer, idiot. Or do you no speaky englee? But since YOU brought it up, I'll pay you when you're finished with me based on the job you do. You savvy?
I respect him. The world needs more people like him willing to help in ways others do not even want to think about. I know that if I were to have a terminal illness I would not want to suffer.
I always said I didn't know whether to give my father-in-law a Ted Kaczynski Gift Box or the Kevorkian Gift Certificate for his birthday!
i thought he died?
Go Dr. Jack!!!! I'd love to call you when I need you.
This guy is one of the few in the world who has the cajones enough to help usher out of this life terminally ill and very much in pain individuals who begged for his services. And he went to prison for it (his videos were his downfall, alas). This guy is a true American hero. We could take a lesson from the Dutch. This whole right to life movement that prevents one from taking his or her own life under the most dire of circumstances is fully and completely archaic, stupid and inhumane.
Just look around at all the old farts in public office. some or should I say MOST have been there too long and are sooooooooooooo out of touch. Good for Dr. death, everyone should have the right to end it peacefully if they choose. It's better then jumping in front of a train or something maybe endangering others or blowing their brains out and maybe surviving. Why do these politicians want to force people who are in horrible pain and inoperable to keep living? To sell more drugs and hospital bills to them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perez, get on your shit, I heard about this almost 2 weeks ago.
It's been said before, but I'll say it again…we take our pets to be "put to sleep" so they no longer need to suffer in life. Why in the world don't we give humans that same opportunity? He is no monster! He doesn't take what he did lightly! He isn't helping people with depression/lack of friends/emo kids kill themselves! These people that he helps are sick beyond belief. Until we are ALL in their positions, we have no right to defy them their greatest wish…to end their life with some HUMANITY!
Why are you such an ageist — the mind doesn't shrivel and sag unless it's allowed to (by the brainwasher's Kevorkian suggests) or it's a Hollywood starlet at the ripe old age of 30 (ooo , pushing it). Why are Americans so slow catching the boat? Is it because of all the 'brainwashing'? Have you had a parent or two die on you and they wanted to die in a dignified manner - sounds not. . . Do you prefer this current political race of sex versus gender? There's so much to be said about brainwashed Americans who think they run the world and the world is indentured to it (punny)– ha ha joke's on you as far as the rest of educated world sees it — religious oppression, segregation, homophobia, dumbing down — the American way ! Yay!
yay for crazy armenians!!!
Finally someone who does what they say-say what they mean running for office. What a refreshing change.
lol…that has to be the funniest shit i've heard all day…every moron KNOWS the Ninth amendment DOES NOT EXIST…It's the black hole of the Constitution!!!! He must have the worlds stupidest lawyer if he can't find a better argument than the 9th…NO ONE uses the ninth…NO ONE…the supreme court woud NEVER EVER EVER rule that something can be protected in the ninth…Scalia would smack down his lawyers so hard…the oral arguments woulld be more entertaining than the Guantanamo cases….he should at least try equal protection or due process before the ninth….LOLOLOLOL
This man is a Saint for the work he has done. Everyone should have the right to be assisted to end their suffering. Keeping people alive for your own religious beliefs to make you feel you better… that is what i call evil!
Re: aya –
Before you tell someone to do more research, you should learn to be grammatically correct.
Re: kelly –
brainwashing at its bestRe: kelly –
if someone wants to end their (or a loved ones) misery for being old, retarded, invalid or deformed i say let em! making taxpayers pay for the care of these unfortunates is unfair!! LONG LIVE DR. DEATH!!
you need to prove this — where's the evidence - print a link
an easy chair, computer chair, table chair? I'm confused…
i love this guy! we put our pets to sleep so they won't suffer, but yet we won't allow it for our own kind? seems silly to me.
No, one will probably read this comment but I'll make it notheless. Anyone who feels like government or medicine has the right to take over our bodies and ours souls, never watched or helped a person die. It is hard, messy and undignified to the person and the life the have lived. There sometimes is so much pain involved and helplessness. It is a terrible place to be and be in. The loss of dignity is insurmountable. People beg, plead, in their lucid moments just whisper and ask. He is trying to at least give people a choice to end what ia ailing them. These are not young kids playing with life, they are terminal and geriatric patients (geriatric patients, who medicine has left by the wayside most of all). All I can say is, when I die, I'd like it to be on my own terms, not a doll or a lifeless but trapped soul who just wants the dignity to rest. That's it.
Re: dutchoven – what if they're young and have a disease that came out of nowhere — please clarify 'retarded'
Re: JACK THE DRIPPER – brilliant — please be our president
HELL YA……..DAMN PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS MAN ESPECIALLY THE TYRANT COMMENT……IT IS YOUR AND OUR FUTURE AND EVERY FUCKIN DAY WE GET MORE RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY……..CHIP US NOW SO WE CAN BE MORE PASSIVE AND SUBSERVIANT TO THE POWERS THAT SHOULDNT BE
Re: e – so, uh? what would they use?
HELL YA……..DAMN PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS MAN ESPECIALLY THE TYRANT COMMENT……IT IS YOUR AND OUR FUTURE AND EVERY FREAKIN DAY WE GET MORE RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY……..CHIP US NOW SO WE CAN BE MORE PASSIVE AND SUBSERVIANT TO THE POWERS THAT SHOULDNT BE
Re: kelly – brainwashed 'American" — our sympathies– and will you require sympathy when a loved one is degraded to 'piece of shit' ?
I really have so much respect for him. After he was released from prison, he did a fantastic interview (I think 60 minutes) and it was amazing and really shed light on his perspective and his utter desire to help people.
Re: butterfly soup – american? he's armenian…
Dr. Kevorkian is a brilliant and brave man. As a nurse I saw a man who every day for three months laid in bed waiting to die as his body and dignity diminished each day. Each day he spent the rest of his life with lonlieness and bordem. He said to me "Sweety if there is a suicide program I would be on it in a second, I am ready to die". He was unable to do it himself. Then as the days wore on and the pain increased he was placed on morphine. For one week he lived on morphine unable to communicate, eat or drink as we waited for him to die. I washed him, sang to him and prayed beside him. I know he is happy now. God Bless him. I wish he never had suffer as he did.
EDIT:
Kevorkian does not "say" what the 9th amendment is, that IS the ninth amendment. What he says is his interpretation of the amendment.
"Kevorkian says the Ninth Amendment protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the Constitution. "
If I ever got into a situation where pain killers did not alleviate pain from a teminal illness, I feel assured I could figure a way to put myself out of my misery without soliciting that ghoulish ugly fuck to put me out. I have more brains than a horse.
130 or more people were fortunate to find one of the many people that realize and accept that we are not all the same. One man's suffering could be growing old and never owning a sports car and having a hot wife, while another man's suffering may be the fact that his wife has to wipe his ass and feed him through a tube.
He's a freak he probably lives off of the people he kills, the more he kills, the longer he lives.
I agree with him, we put our beloved pets out of their misery, but people are supposed to suffer? Something is not right. We own our bodies, not the government. These are personal issues & family issues.
His issue is so passe………….
I hope he wins, joining the ranks of Sonny Bono and Steve Largent as celebrity congressmen.
Re: sunnyuf – please elaborate - change our minds with evidence
Re: bri – excuse me while vomits at trendy buzzword — are you from Switzerland? or artsy twat?
Re: Jordan Edwards, thesocietypress.com – ?Re: Buster Cherry – neeeiiiggh! ride em' cowboy
I LOVE THIS MAN !!!
Dr. Jack is soooooo good.
We put our pets down why not do the same for us??
Re: Caitlin – i don't think he's making him look like a monster, he's just letting us make up out own minds
I'd vote him in.
What are you guys still blabbering about? Here in Belgium we've got the right for euthanasia since 3 years…
When my mother was dying of pancreatic cancer in 1998, she asked if we could get Dr. Kevorkian or someone like him for her. Honestly, if there had been someone like him around, we would have sought that person out. Dr. Kevorkian provided a needed and compassionate service. Unless you have been in that position - to see a loved one in that situation and only want in your heart to stop their suffering - you don't know where he was coming from.
Mexican asshole. Stop killing people!!
he does not do the killing himself, he gives the patient the means to do it. they have to push the button to get things started. the person can change their mind at anytime before starting.
Re: Anaxagoras – so you have to pay for it? Oui, je sais, tu es un piece de la merde
I totally support assisted suicide.
"Vote for Kevorkian…or Else."
Go Jack!!!!! This man is one of a kind -and in a good way.
Thank you, Dr. Kevorkian. Slow, agonizing death is not only painful for the caretakers, it is horrible and degrading to the dying who fight for dignity in the last moments of their lives.
How can he run for office if he is a convicted felon?
I have always been a supporter. i wish THIS WAS A NONE ISSUE! We should all have the right.
God gave uz free will..and our government sayz we're free, so let this man do what the people want.
GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STAY THE EFF OUTTA OUR LIVES IF WE
ARE SO FREAKING FREE….
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAND OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIEZ LIVEZZZ
Larry King looks good in a hat.
Re: Babycakes in Michigan –
Oregon is full of Republican people that go to that Church of God where you can't go mixed swimming with boys, you have to wear a dress if you're a girl, no make up, no dating until 18 so that the kid will move out just to get a piece of wood. They all have ten kids. The one's that are gay, they disown them, but claim they are God fearing people. They don't love a gay child, but claim to love God. I hate those people. They are in the biggest CULT ever since Jim Jones and are too stupid to know it. Dr. K should is a wonderful person, but the Oregon bunch will hate him.
If you guys don't want him then I'd love another outspoken advocate for Euthanasia here in Australia. I watch people dying slowly and painfully daily as a nurse. In my training I worked in rest homes and regularly was asked to help old people who had to sit in their own shit wearing a nappy (diaper) until someone could find some time or a spare pad if they went past their daily alloation of 3 pads to change them (How many times to you go to the lavatory on a normal day?). This is a great man who has the courage to help people put an end to suffering even though some silly fundamentalist insists it remain illegal. We should honour this man.
I didn't know convicted felons could run for Congress.
Go for it-good job before and now. Teach the greedy bunch in Congress the truth and reality they ignore (without being paid off). You rock!
WILLIAM BURROUGHS IS RUNNING FOR SENATE? AMAZING!!!!!!
Personally, I think if someone wants to die, they should be allowed to die.lol. But seriously Jack Kevorkian is only trying to help people with serious illnesses, die. Example, The guy he helped kill himself had Lou Gehrigs Disease, which is a horrible disease, you suffer and die slowly. That guy was going to die anyways. He didn't want to suffer. I wouldn't want to suffer and especially, wouldn't want the ones around me, see me suffer.Just a thought……
Re: thisbe –
what!?! your message above and below is a rant trying to sound educated, but sadly it sounds dumb dumb dumb dumb.
We owe this man a great debt.
Having seen my mother die from terminal cancer, she might have opted for assisted suicide if she'd had the choice. She was a card carrying member of the Hemlock Society.
There is a complete and utter lack of "death education" in this country. Few people know what to day to a dying person and dying people have no rights to a dignified death of their own choosing.
Time to move to Oregon! This is a state that gets it!
good for dr. k. i will totally vote for him! i hope one day we can convince this country to accept assisted suicide.
I work in hospice and see people suffer miserably every single day. Dr. K. is just trying to give people the choice to die with dignity and not alone or in inmeasurable pain. I totally support him and his cause.
Since the age of 5 I have attended causes for Death with Dignity and Hemlock International meetings with my grandparents. Hemlock is an organization that supports Death with Dignity. I absolutely am in shock after reading all of the comments of support for Death with Dignity posted here. I truly hope that all of you supporters will continue to support this noble cause and if the issue is put back on the ballot you remember to vote! Thank you Perez for mentioning something as important as this.
I hope he gets it! he is a good person! and his past IS NOT BAD! He should continue to be involved in assisted suicide.
LOVE.THIS.MAN.
Love this guy! Had to put my sick cat down. Vets were so cool. I wanna go like my cat!
Think he's 100 % right. Unf. he looks like he's full of cancer- not long left.
Good bless you- you're a good man- namaste.
I feel that when the time comes that many of us feel that we've had enough of this life, it should be our choice to end it. Whether building a robot to murk ourselves, overdose, on purpose auto-erotic asphyxia, etc. etc. Dr. Death was that middleman. No one in their right mind wants to suffer on this earth. This should be a machine build like an amusement ride that takes the person to it's end. No one should be forced to live when they don't want to.
Dr. K has been in medicine far longer than politics, yes, but he understands the human dying condition better than anyone. A lot of his ideas are true.
Re: kelly – Re: kelly – My sincere apologies — I definitely had some problems posting responses and don't know how I ended up posting a reply to your message - we're obviously in agreeance — sorry again and hope this ones goes to right place. That was definitely, dumb, dumb, dumb
Good for him. He's a pioneer, not a murderer. I have nothing but respect for him, and I hope he does well.
Re: k – still kinda creepy…I think it should only be legal if the people are terminal or really really old so old they can't wipe their own bum, not if they are depressed teenagers