Assisted Suicides

Title	Assisted Suicides
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Assisted Suicides

Assisted Suicides

The Washington Post September 2-8, 1996

     Picture yourself in this situation.  You go to the doctor for a routine
physical.  You look fine.  You feel good.  All those exhausting workouts at the
gym are finally starting to pay off and you actually stuck to that low fat, high
vitamin diet you're doctor recommended.  You have never felt better.  You are
essentially the epitome of a healthy, fit human being.  Then, out of nowhere,
you are diagnosed with a disorder of the nervous system accompanied by chronic
fatigue syndrome.  The illness is permanent and there is no cure.  It will only
progress and worsen with time, and all you can do is wait.  What would you do?
     If you were 42-year-old Judith Curren, a nurse and mother of two small
children, you'd be in close contact with the infamous suicide assessor, Dr. Jack
Kevorkian, a.k.a. "Doctor Death," discussing your "options."  However, according
to an editorial published in The Washington Post, entitled "38 Assisted
Suicides," many people believe that when it comes to matters such as life and
death, there are no options.  The decision to live or die is made by God.
Judith Curren didn't agree.  With the assistance of Dr. Kevorkian, she died and
the retired pathologist presided at his 38th assisted suicide, fairly confident
that he will not be prosecuted or even suffer public disapproval.
     Many of the people who have sought out Dr. Kevorkian have been terribly ill
and suffering, with no hope of long-term survival.  Their stories offered
examples that built public sympathy for this cause.  But from the beginning,
even among observers who believe that the desperately sick should be given help
to die, there have been questionable cases.  For example, a woman in her fifties
allegedly suffering from early Alzheimer's disease was fit enough to play tennis
with her adult son shortly before dying.  Another-said to have had a painful,
progressive illness-was found to be free of disease by the county med...

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