Disappearing Soon, in a store near you: Assisted Suicide Growing up in Michigan, I was familiarized with the plight of a certain Jack Kevorkian, who was made famous in the mid 90s for a series of assisted suicide trials, none of which, I believe, he was ever convicted. They did put him away for some other auxillary offence, like drug trafficking, or distributing… But nevertheless, having recently been made aware of it (I’m only now old enough to really understand any of the underlying concepts, rights and freedoms that are being violated) I am particularly fond of this defense: [The Physician] asserts that he is NOT trying to assist the patient in ending his/her life, but rather, he is medicating the person properly so as to alleviate the pain and suffering that accompanies … Read entire article »