Jack Kevorkian Assisted Suicide Analysis

“You will no longer be an inconvenience to society,” this is said by Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the movie about his life called You Don’t Know Jack. He says this while explaining his new “death machine” to a patient. This death machine would, when injected, end the life of a terminally ill patient. People did not want to suffer their long term illness any longer than needed be. The made a decision to end their own lives. It is considered Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS), the physician provides the resource of euthanasia, and the terminally ill patient uses it on themselves. They have no hope. They do not believe things can get better. They do not want to be strong and fight. They want to give up. Dr. Kevorkian sat and watched that happen; he even assisted and helped them end their lives by euthanasia. Dr. Jack Kevorkian should not have medically assisted suicide because it is against the Hippocratic Oath, it is not part of being a pathologist (of which Kevorkian was), and that he abused his title as medical professional; Kevorkian’s methods were unethical. The Hippocratic Oath

This violates what it means to be a pathologist, which is what Dr. Kevorkian was. A pathologist is a doctor that studies the human body and human tissue of a dead person (College of American Pathologists). He was only licensed to study the deceased, not take someone’s life. This again is evidence as to why Dr. Jack Kevorkian should not have been assisting

That April, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison with the possibility of parole. During the next three years, Kevorkian attempted to pursue the conviction in appeals court. His request was refused. Lawyers representing Kevorkian sought to bring the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that request was also declined (Biography.com