Jack Kevorkian - A man of courage
Euthanasia wouldn’t have faced such support and public interest if it weren’t for numerous individuals, who have put in countless efforts in both drawing international and national attention to end of life issues and describing the concept as humane and ethically permissible.
Jack Kevorkian was one of the movement participants, who wasn’t shy to express his opinion about the matter, among other things. He was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent, best known for terminating a patient’s life via physician assisted suicide. In hopes to change the views about this necessary pain relieving practice, the brave doctor participated in his first assisted suicide in 1990, 4th of June. He assists Janet Adkins, one of Hemlock Society members, a society which played a crucial role in the advanced revolution of granting people their rightful human rights, in committing suicide in Michigan.
Jack Kevorkian was one of the movement participants, who wasn’t shy to express his opinion about the matter, among other things. He was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent, best known for terminating a patient’s life via physician assisted suicide. In hopes to change the views about this necessary pain relieving practice, the brave doctor participated in his first assisted suicide in 1990, 4th of June. He assists Janet Adkins, one of Hemlock Society members, a society which played a crucial role in the advanced revolution of granting people their rightful human rights, in committing suicide in Michigan.
In November 1998, Jack publicly shows a videotape of him injecting a lethal inoculation to Thomas Youk, a man diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s sickness, live on national television. The man was the definition of fearless and a man of strong beliefs, the reason due to which he took the outcome of the procedue more than lightly. Consequently, due to the lack of euthanasia approval on Michigan grounds, he is convicted for the murder of Thomas Youk and sentenced to 10-15 years of imprisonment.
After serving 8 years in prison of his involvement in the euthanasia of Thomas Youk, he is paroled, without delivering his maximum sentence of 10-25 years.
The man who was known as Dr. Death because of the long list of terminally ill patients he had assisted in ending their lives, 130 to be exact, as mentioned in his claims, Adkins being the first of them, departed at the age of 83, the cause being pulmonary thrombosis, a blood clot. This heroic portrayal of a man, who medically, willfully aided tons of far from possible recovery, thanks to which became the central figure in the national drama surrounding physician-assisted suicide.
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