Dr. Death Returns<\/a>,”):<\/p>\n\n\t\u25cf Before beginning his assisted suicide campaign, Kevorkian sought permission to experiment on prisoners as part of the execution process.<\/strong> He only turned to the ill and disabled when he had been thwarted from using the criminal justice system to satisfy his macabre obsessions.<\/p>\n\u25cf About 70 percent of Kevorkian’s assisted suicides were not terminally ill.<\/strong> Most were depressed people with disabilities. Five weren’t even sick upon autopsy.<\/p>\n\u25cf He is a eugenics believer, <\/strong>stating in a court document, “The voluntary self-elimination of individual mortally diseased and crippled lives taken collectively can only enhance the preservation of public health and welfare.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\u25cf He ripped out the kidneys of one of his assisted suicide victims and offered them at a press conference, “first come first served.” <\/strong>The “surgery” was so crude that the Oakland County Medical Examiner called it out of a “slaughterhouse”<\/strong> and a “bizarre mutilation.”<\/strong> The media barely reported the story and it is now long forgotten.<\/p>\nThat a disturbed man like Jack Kevorkian can be so touted, so remade<\/i>, indicates how profoundly lost we are in the fog of relativism. At this point, we must face the truth: The real problem isn’t Kevorkian: It is us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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