RIP Jack Kevorkian

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robkelk wrote:

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He took that hope away from others when he gave them the option to die.

No he didn't. People who have that hope can simply choose not to be euthanized. Kevorkian was accommodating people who had already lost hope.

And I've heard some third-hand reports (from news reports quoting grieving family members, so take them with a large
gain of salt) that the choice was forced on some of these people. If
that's true - I repeat, if - then he wasn't the saint that some
right-to-die advocates claim.

That's kind of like saying
"I've heard reports (that you'd want to take with a large grain of
salt) that Barack Obama might not be a natural-born citizen. If that's
true, he shouldn't be the President." It is both obviously true and
deeply disingenuous.