[新聞] Jack Kevorkian Promotes Euthanasia Again, Al Pacino HBO
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Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- In one of his first lengthy interviews
following eight years in prison for murdering a disabled patient on national
television, Jack Kevorkian is at it again promoting euthanasia. Meanwhile,
the movie that will glorify his life and his killing of dozens and dozens of
people will debut next year.
The retired pathologist became the scourge of the nation when he embarked on
a campaign claiming to kill more than 125 people in assisted suicides.
Kevorkian took advantage of the state of Michigan not having a direct
assisted suicide ban and never served a day in jail until he went further by
killing a patient.
Kevorkian talked with FOX2 in Detroit about the kind of euthanasia he
recommends.
"It's got to be quick, certain, painless and humane," he says, and he
recommends a type of barbiturate that can kill someone in as little as eight
seconds.
Kevorkian also told FOX that he would still assist someone in killing
himself, even if the person was a close friend like his longtime lawyer and
friend Mayer Morganroth.
"If nobody else would (help him), I would," he said. "I would. What can he do
to me that's already happened?"
During the interview, Kevorkian says he contemplated his own suicide while in
prison.
"I was going to starve to death," he told FOX 2.
Kevorkian spent most of his time after prison talking about prisoner's rights
and he says in the interview that he has a big project planned that may not
be entirely about assisted suicide.
'Something bigger than rights, or euthanasia. I can't talk about it until it
happens," he said.
Kevorkian wrote a book during his time in prison and the manuscript has been
turned into an upcoming HBO movie entitled "You Don't Know Jack." Al Pacino
plays Kevorkian in a role he says he appreciates.
"It's an honor," Kevorkian said. "He looks exactly like me."
The movie will follow Kevorkian has he constructs his controversial “Mercy
Machine,” conducts his first assisted suicide, and begins a media frenzy
with legal battles and media manipulation to build support for his crusade.
Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Danny Huston and Brenda Vaccaro also star in
the film that will spark a heated debate about how the elderly and disabled
are treated.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film will "trace his rise as he
builds his infamous 'Mercy Machine,' conducts his first assisted suicide, and
starts a media frenzy with his epic legal battles."
Adam Mazer is the author of the script, which is loosely based on "Between
the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and
the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia" by Neal Nicol, an acolyte of Kevorkian's.
Barry Levinson will direct the film, according to the Hollywood web site, and
Steven L. Jones, Lydia Dean Pilcher and Glenn Rigberg will be the executive
producers.
Bioethics attorney Wesley J. Smith isn't enthused about the new movie.
"The culture of death is being pushed from many quarters, perhaps most
harmfully by the purveyors of popular culture," he says.
"Jack Kevorkian assisted the suicides of at least 130 people--most of whom
were not terminally ill and five of whom were not sick according to
autopsies--and murdered one," Smith adds. "He ripped out the kidneys of one
of his victims after death, that of a former cop who had become quadriplegic
from a gunshot wound."
Smith says Kevorkian's ultimate goal was "obitiatry," which is the
experimenting on living human beings before they were euthanized.
"But none of that mattered or matters. And now, he is going to be celebrated
in a puff movie," Smith says. "You could not get a more ghoulish, solipsist
public figure than Kevorkian. Yet, he is to be beatified, Hollywood style.
Color me absolutely disgusted."
In a speech last year at the University of Florida, Kevorkian said he killed
about 20 percent of the people who came to him and asked him for his help in
taking their lives.
"My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death," he said.
Kevorkian was released from prison in 2007 on parole after spending eight
years behind bars in the intentional killing of Thomas Youk in 1998. Youk's
euthanasia death was shown on national television and Kevorkian was convicted
of second-degree murder.
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