[SJackson]

Execution would seem more appropriate. And dignified.

[Prysson]

Let him rot in jail with as little dignity as we can legally get away with.

[Ol' Sox]

Has he served his sentence? No?

Screw 'im. Next.

[The Lumster]

This is from the Onion isn't it?

[maine-iac7]

He has the right to deny food and water - while practicing what he preached.

[mcvey]

There does seem to be a certain justice here.

[cripplecreek]

Figer didn't waste any time dumping him when it became apparent that he may not win.

[dfwgator]

Let him starve, after all, it's euphoric.

[LadyDoc]

He killed a mentally ill man who had delusions that he had cancer, but did not.
He killed an abused wife with "fibromyalgia" whose "loving" husband helpfully took her to be killed.
He was jailed for killing someone whose wife insisted he wanted to be killed, but on videotape there was no actual consent...again, to the advantage of the wife.

The dirty little secret is that almost half that he killed were NOT terminally ill, many had mental illness, others had untreated pain, and many were only in the early stages of a terminal illness (the first woman had mild alzheimers'...so not only could she have lived ten more years, but could not give consent)...

, and the other dirty little secret is that he got the name "Dr. Death" not because he killed people, but from the nurses who found him creepy because as a pathologist, he would visit dying people to make their autopsy "more interesting"...

Let him die in jail.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Should we let him die in prison

Yes.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

For some reason, I find this article hysterical! But then again, I like irony.

[Asclepius]

"I'll die in prison. There is nothing anyone can do. The public has no power."

Dude. It's the public's power that put you away, and precisely the power of the public that you opposed. You can't take the law into your own hands and start whacking people, goofball, even if your methods were relatively humane, your intentions honourable, or your victims were willing victims.

[Glenn]

Let him die at home. What does society have to gain by being an a$$hole?

[L.N. Smithee]

Release him? It is to laugh. This guy took advantage of people who weren't necessarily deathly ill, but just gave up. Giving up is not a crime; killing those who do is.

Thank goodness Kevorkian got so full of himself he thought he could get away with killing someone who wasn't terminal on national television. If he was allowed to continue unabated, we might have seen the type of euthanasia movement that has infected Scandinavia.

Happy trails, Dr. Death.

[chimera]

So, I wonder why he isn't clamoring for one of his death machines to use on himself? Maybe he is the kind of person that thinks dying is great...as long as it is someone else and not him.

[bmwcyle]

He wants to juice himself. Let him stay in jail

[dc-zoo]

Give him enough rope to do to himself what he did to others.

[knarf]

My wife of 21 years went home to be with the Lord June 15, 2004. She had been diagnosed with sarcoma cancer in July of 2003.
Chemo was started, after two major operations, in January of '04.

My darling bride was so well cared for and doped up .. she smiled and loopily communicated until she lost ability to be concious .. about 6 hrs before she left us.

The argument about pain and dignity is, IMO .. valid perhaps to forgotten people.

Between being at home, having Hospice (God bless those angels!), and the drugs that are proscribed for terminal patients .. I can assure everyone .. at least for my wife and me .. Death was pretty much going to sleep.

Let Kevorkian have people around him, in a clinic, in a prison.

[Pompah]

Forgotten Fighter My Ass. Dr. Kovorkian made his bed long ago.

Let him lie in it.

[Ben Mugged]

My father was the bravest man I knew. He was a WWII vet who served with distinction. He was wiry and handsome and a rifleman in Europe. He broke his back once in a swimming accident with the family and drove himself 30 miles to the emergency room. He was no slacker when it came to pain. My dad contracted cancer and died in less than a year. He spent the last month of his life in a ward at the Tampa veterans hospital. They gave him a morphine drip with a little button he could hold in his hand and press when the pain got too severe. He spent the last three days of his life screaming. When he died, his hand was so tightly clamped on the little button he broke it.

I don't know about any of you but I don't want to go that way. My dad didn't deserve that agony. If I had a choice, I would have let him go with dignity.

[mass55th]

If he wants to die, all he's got to do is tie a sheet around his neck and hang himself...or he can get another con to do him in. There's plenty of ways to do away with yourself in prison. Convicts do it everyday.