Kevorkian Essay

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a controlled substance to them and should be held criminally accountable for his actions. Kevorkian has entered himself into medical fields in which he has no training or familiarity with, has helped people with no terminal illness commit suicide along with many others who would not be seen as competent enough to make appropriate decisions. Many of Kevorkian's "patients" could have lived for many more enjoyable years.
Most doctors are heavily trained before they can practice medicine in a specific area, but Dr. Kevorkian has no credentials whatsoever which would qualify him to deal with depressed or dying people. When asked about his medical career, Kevorkian once said: "Well, it's never been going well. I had an erratic practice...I had so many controversial topics on my resume, that people were just frightened to death of me. And it was hopeless to get a position." With the exception of his residency and his military service in the 1950s, he had had no clinical experience ...

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that the alleviation of pain and suffering is only a "minor benefit" in his overall scheme of things. His ultimate goal is not to help the "doomed" person, and has described this "minor benefit" as only the first step which will lead to his goal. Kevorkian's major goal is the establishment of deadly human experimentation. Kevorkian has even drawn up extensive plans for these death centers and has divided the state of Michigan state into eleven killing zones. In each of these killing zones he wants to establish death houses run by "untouchables" where even someone as young as eighteen could go to commit suicide. Under his guidance he believes that the "untouchables" would ...

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