Dr. Jack Kevorkian Role Model

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(Dr. Jack Kevorkian) said he was afraid of death as much as anyone else and said the world had a hypocritical attitude toward voluntary euthanasia, or assisted suicide.

"If we can aid people into coming into the world, why can't we aid them in exiting the world?" (Reuters, 2011) even though Dr. Jack Kevorkian had taken the hypocritical oath as a doctor preserving the right to do everything for the survival of one's life, he had many obstacles to overcome trying to prove assisted suicide was a humane way to die. I believe every person has his or her own life, also that the law should not stand in the way of any physician who is willing to administer a suicide in which is voluntary based on the patient's mental and physical state. "Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears ...

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