…conditions that this first unpleasant step can help establish — in a word obitiatry.”(Obitriatry was Kevorkian’s name for his wished-for medical specialty which would involve facilitating deaths, and exploiting the individuals in the killing process through experimentation and organ harvesting.) Kevorkian’s advocacy wasn’t limited to death row prisoners and it wasn’t limited to people who could express a wish to be killed. Below is an excerpt from…
…d the difference is what label you wear, whether you are deemed as terminally ill, elderly, having a “complete” life — which is something they use in other places, or disabled. So our feeling also is that it’s a real disservice to legislators and the public to be discussing assisted suicide that’s just so involved in this pandemic year. So if it cannot stand on its own merits and they feel the need to push it through, well, legislators and their c…
…ere pushing this term with no clear evidence for doing so when I read this bit in a story by Liam Ford, Carolyn Starks and Vikki Ortiz in the Chicago Tribune: Even as they announced indictments against Marty Himebaugh, 57, and her supervisor, Penny Whitlock, 59, prosecutors refused to offer a motive or to say whether six suspicious deaths at the Woodstock Residence between 2004 and 2006 were mercy killings. Generally, when a reporter says that an…
…n exactly the situation he appeared to be: old; very, very sick; moaning a bit; possibly calming when stroked; a man who had been a fighter, a man who had been strong, now “reduced” to being in bed, not going to improve much, kind of on the downhill slide, not alert and fully conscious, but IF NOT PVS, then he’s very close to Claire Conroy’s situation, albeit somewhat younger. And Conroy confirms the result below in this case was correct. The Conr…
…octor-assisted suicide, is an ethical option that should be extended not only to the infirm or terminally ill, but also to inmates on death row. Condemned prisoners, he maintains, should, if they choose, be executed via general anesthesia, with the option of donating organs or having their intact bodies used for medical experimentation. (emphasis added) Frankly, both the article by Graeme Wood and especially the animated feature come very close to…
