Jack "Dr Death" Kevorkian won't be down for breakfast.

[Ponch ®]

I wonder if he did himself in?

DETROIT - Jack Kevorkian, the audacious, fearless doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died Friday at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness. He was 83.

Kevorkian died about 2:30 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, close friend and prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth said. He had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems.

The retired pathologist, who said he injected lethal drugs that helped some 130 people die during the 1990s, likened himself to Martin Luther King and Gandhi and called prosecutors Nazis, his critics religious fanatics. He burned state orders against him, showed up at court in costume, called doctors who didn't support him "hypocritic oafs" and challenged authorities to stop him or make his actions legal.

"The issue's got to be raised to the level where it is finally decided," Kevorkian said during a broadcast of CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired a Lou Gehrig's disease patient's videotaped 1998 death as Kevorkian challenged prosecutors to charge him in the case that eventually sent him to prison.

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[Old Moparz]

A lot of people like what he stood behind. It's one of those debates that will never end either.



Anyway, I always thought he looked a lot like Christopher Lee as Dracula.

[Todd Wilson]

He was one of the greats. He went to the end on what he believed in.   We can put dogs to sleep when they are old and sick but a person cant put themselves to sleep when they are sick and have no quality of life and no hope of recovery.



Todd

[Richard Cranium]

I believe in the message, but he was just creepy.

[68coronetGLwannabe]

He was one of the greats. He went to the end on what he believed in.   We can put dogs to sleep when they are old and sick but a person cant put themselves to sleep when they are sick and have no quality of life and no hope of recovery.



Todd

[derailed]

He was one of the greats. He went to the end on what he believed in.   We can put dogs to sleep when they are old and sick but a person cant put themselves to sleep when they are sick and have no quality of life and no hope of recovery.



Todd

I agree also, never could understand that.

[bull]

 

He was one of the greats.


Todd

[daves68]

So why didn't he off himself instead of dying naturally ?

[Kern Dog]

Do ALL these people eat breakfast? How about some creativity next time you write a title?