What did Dr Kevorkian achieve? Differing views

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Richard Cote reviews "You Don't Know Jack", the HBO film about Dr. Jack Kevorkian. His summary:

It is designed to entertain and inform, and does so fairly well. He is portrayed as an ascetic, intellectually brilliant, artistic, multi-talented, emotionally isolated, death-fixated zealot (his own word) with a small cadre of intensely close and protective friends and a personal mission to end needless end-of-life suffering through physician-assisted suicide.

Cote quotes several right-to-die activists on Kevorkian: Jacqueline Jencquel, Secretary-General of ADMD-France, Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society and author of the bestseller "Final Exit", Dr. Hugh T. Wynne, of Scotland, past-president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, Lesley Martin, Trustee of the Dignity New Zealand Trust, and Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, former Medical Director of The Final Exit Network.

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Cote, Richard. "What did Dr Kevorkian achieve ? Differing views". World right-to-die news list. Sun Apr 25 11:10:30 PDT 2010. <lists.opn.org/pipermail/right-to-die_lists.opn.org/2010-April/003870.html>. The right-to-die mailing list at lists.opn.org: <http://www.lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/right-to-die_lists.opn.org>.

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  • Dr. Jack Kevorkian

  • You Don't Know Jack

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