My thanks to readers of this blog. Several entered into the surprisingly short comment thread in Time Magazine‘s “Fond Farewell” to Jack Kevorkian, which I wrote about last week. (Among other issues, the obituary referred to the people Kevorkian “helped” as ‘dying.) Surprisingly, aside from one person who made the tired old “we’re kinder to […]
I’m sure this won’t be the last of these articles now that we’re at the end of the year, but Time Magazine has printed an obituary for Jack Kevorkian in its “Fond Farewells” section in its “Person of the Year” issue. The obit was originally written back in June of this year and was written […]
(note: for a variety of reasons, the comments have backed up in the moderation queue. I plan on posting backlogged comments tomorrow, with replies.) The new issue of Time Magazine has an interesting essay by Nancy Gibbs, who is a pretty mainstream journalist. What makes this interesting is that she has taken a look at […]
Yesterday, I promised that I would have some “nasty” things to say about an article concerning the Final Exit Network (FEN). I don’t know if what you’ll find below is “nasty,” but the March 2 article “Final Exit: Compassion or Assisted Suicide?” totally distorts and mangles the core facts of the story surrounding FEN. As […]
