Prescription--medicide: The Goodness of Planned DeathFor many years Dr. Kevorkian was at the center of the red-hot debate over physician-assisted suicide. The inventor of the "suicide machine" stirred up both admiration and controversy. His "Deaths with Dignity" won him the accolades of the pro-choice movement. Other groups, like Operation Rescue, the AMA, the Hemlock Society, and especially the Michigan State Legislature, insisted that Kevorkian had gone too far. His much-publicized campaign to assist the terminally ill to commit suicide eventually led to his prosecution and imprisonment. In Prescription: Medicide, the famed "suicide doctor" talks about why he was so committed to his struggle. He addresses the need to assist the terminally ill to die, how death row inmates should be allowed to donate organs after their deaths, and the need for medical reform to create a rational program of dignified, humane, beneficial planned death. |
Contents
Retribution on the 13th of July | 11 |
What Really Happened? | 17 |
Rebirth of an Idea | 27 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abortion anesthesia anesthetized assisted assisted suicide barbiturate beheading blood body brain brain-dead called campaign capital punishment cause century choice clinical complete concept condemned criminals consent convict crime criticism death penalty death row decapitation decision disease doctors donate organs donor dose doubt drugs electric chair electrocution endorsed ethical euthanasia executioner experiment experimentation Forssmann guillotine Harry head heart Herophilus Hippocrates Hippocratic Hippocratic Oath hospital human inmate Janet journal Joyce judicial Kevorkian kidney killing later legislators lethal injection letter live matter medical profession medicine ment mental Mercitron method of execution mind minutes moral murder muscles Nuremberg Code oath obitiatry official Ohio Penitentiary opinion option organ donation organ procurement oxygen pain patients performed physicians possible potassium chloride practice prisoners proposal published rational request response result Senteau society suffering suicide surgeons surgery telephone thiopental tion transplantation unethical victim vivisection warden