Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian is headed to the University of Florida for an October 11 speaking engagement -- which will have the college pay him $50,000. But the event isn't going over well with students there, who are upset that state taxpayer dollars will be used to pay the convicted murderer.
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"Once again my school is making national headlines for reasons that make me cringe. It very rarely speaks for me, and I am ashamed my fellow students in the governing body want the cache of Kevorkian at the expense of respect or dignity," Emans says in the Town Hall editorial.
Emans pointed out the irony that Terri Schiavo was a victim of euthanasia in the same state and that the judge who allowed her former husband to take her life was University of Florida graduate George Greer.
"Bioethicist Bill Allen teaches here, who said in an interview that he believed Terri Schiavo was not a person," she added.
Jack Kevorkian Visit to University of Florida Upsetting to Students There
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On October 11, 2007 Dr. Jack Kevorkian will speak at the University of Florida. His resume includes at least 130 assisted suicides, several notable writings, and an eight year stint in prison (out of the 10-25 years sentenced for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk). Kevorkian accepted my school's offer by ACCENT, which is the largest student-run speaker's bureau in the nation, as well as a Student Government agency.
Therefore, his $50,000 honorarium is subsidized by taxpayer dollars. Kevorkian's UF stop will probably be his first paid public speaking engagement since his June 1 release from prison, according to Kevorkian's lawyer Mayer Morganroth. "They were actually the first ones to call," Morganroth said of ACCENT. "They sent the request almost immediately after he was out."
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Terri Schiavo was euthanized in Pinellas Park, Florida on the order of Pinellas County Court Judge George Greer, a UF alum. Bioethicist Bill Allen teaches here, who said in an interview that he believed Terri Schiavo was not a person (Terri's Foundation already has an email petition setup to oppose Kevorkian's appearance at Florida). The verdict is in: UF does not value life, and espouses the "Culture of Death" Pope John Paul II warned of. How sad we no longer expect anything else from our public universities.
Florida Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Dr. Death
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Not wishing it on anyone, but one would hope he'd have a change of heart if it were his child.
50,000 bucks? I don’t blame the students for being angry. I hope the allumni is paying attention to this gross misapropriation of funds.
Jack K. is one evil man. He even looks evil.