Kevorkian promoted death culture

Imagine my surprise to read in the Daily Herald that Jack Kevorkian’s audacious attitude set him apart. The article makes people think that he was a respected physician when, in fact, he was an unemployed pathologist who never worked with living patients.

However, in the medical profession, he was a change agent. His driving motive was always obsession with death. His book, Prescription Medicide, clearly explained and defined him. It explains his overriding purpose in the assisted suicide campaign. It was to engage in what he called “obitiatry,” which is the right to experiment on the brains and spinal cords of “living human bodies” being euthanized to “pinpoint the exact onset of extinction of an unknown cognitive mechanism that energizes life.”

Kevorkian killed more than 130 people, the majority of whom were people with disabilities who had no terminal illness; one was simply old. In at least five cases autopsies were unable to confirm any disease at all. In my book, that made him a serial killer.

All the hype of the media and the failure of jurisprudence in the case of Jack Kevorkian underlies the progressive decay of the American culture. The media wants us to think Kevorkian is audacious and set apart, when, in fact, the failed pathologist is on record that his ultimate goal was to conduct live human medical experiments on dying people, including infants and children.

He also wanted to create suicide centers for “all those who need or desire it.” That such a man is tolerated, much less respected, by millions of people speaks volumes about how far we have already fallen down the death culture’s slippery slope.

Bonnie Quirke, R.N.

Libertyville