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...include a stipulation that he refrain from giving advice to patients seeking assisted suicide. Instead of returning to medical practice, Kevorkian said he will work to legalize assisted suicides for the next generation of doctors. He is currently running in Michigan for a seat in the House of Representatives. Kervorkian also spoke at length on what he said he perceived as the dishonesty, lack of discipline, and undercurrent of fear in modern society. Departing from the stated topic of his talk, he compared the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the actions of the Nazis. One audience member said...
...have lamented seeing Kevorkian become the poster boy of the issue. "He's too unpredictable and wacky," says Grace. Some hope his removal from the scene may clear the way for calmer arguments. His theatrics have detracted from addressing the wrenchingly difficult issues of the subject, a fact that Kervorkian himself may have sensed when he said Friday that he no longer wanted to represent himself before the court. But his decision came too late to change the outcome, being announced shortly before the jury delivered its verdict...
SHAKESPEARE: Today audiences like their Shakespeare straight up. But theatergoers centuries earlier preferred "improved" versions, including Romeo and Juliet with a non-Kervorkian resolution. Among Shakespeare's self-appointed co-writers was the now forgotten Nahum Tate (1652-1715), who cut and pasted his way through Coriolanus, Richard II and, most notoriously, King Lear, to whom Tate restored sanity, crown and daughter Cordelia before the curtain fell. Among Lear's last Tate speeches: "Cordelia shall be a queen./ Winds catch the sound/ And bear it on your rosy wings to heaven./ Cordelia is a queen...
...After more than a year out of the spotlight, Dr. Jack Kervorkian attended the suicide on Saturday of Margaret Garrish, 72, in a Detroit suburb. Garrish was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, among other ailments. It was unclear whether a Michigan law banning assisted suicide expired the day before her death. Authorities ruled the case a homicide...
...Maybe its the boy in me." -- DR JACK KERVORKIAN, ON TRIAL IN DETROIT FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE, EXPLAINING HIS PASSION FOR RESEARCH INTO DEATH