As promised, this is the transcript of the video linked in the last post: JACK KEVORKIAN, ASSISTED SUICIDE ADVOCATE: The only qualification you need is what I said, you’re a citizen. JEFF GOLDBLATT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He has been called Dr. Death. But soon assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian hopes to replace that nickname … Continue reading Transcript for Fox News Story on Kevorkian
Yesterday (April 1), Brit Hume’s “Special Report” featured a story on Kevorkian’s plan to run for Congress in Michigan’s 9th District. I was interviewed for the story as a representative of Not Dead Yet. I received an anonymous tip that a copy of the story is now online: I will try to transcribe the video … Continue reading Yesterday on Fox News…
Last night, the Associated Press issued a story on Jack Kevorkian’s formal announcement of his intended candidacy for Congress in Michigan’s 9th District. Right now, the story is on about 25 different news sites. It’s hard to know which link will stay up the longest. I’ll go with ABC for now, anyway: When asked about … Continue reading NDY Quoted in AP Coverage of Kevorkian While Others in the Media Drop the Ball
Greg Dahlmann, at blog.bioethics.net, alerts readers to Graeme Wood’s article arguing that we should permit (in Dahlmann’s words) “death row prisoners to, essentially, die by organ donation.” Wood’s article is titled “Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death-Row Inmates“: But by using what the bioethicist Arthur Caplan calls “the Mayan Protocol”—a term derived from the ancient … Continue reading Taking Credit for Kevorkian’s Ideas: Prisoners and Organ Harvesting
The following Associated Press story is making its way across the net and the news media outlets: PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian says he plans to run for Congress. Kevorkian is on parole since his release from prison last year after serving the minimum of a term for second-degree murder in … Continue reading “Dying” Kevorkian to Run for Congress – Will Media Treat Him Like a Candidate or as a Sideshow?
