Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian has been called both a hero and a monster, but I portray him as a hero. People called him the “doctor death and that he is playing God” (Levinson, 2010), but he was just trying to give people the rights over their own death. He was the first doctor to put forth the idea that people have the right to die with dignity and the patients have the right to choose for their future not their physicians. Jack said, “starving patients to death is wrong, and that quick and painless death is the way to go with their physician’s assistance” (Levinson, 2010). I think starving people to death is one of the worst forms of death; just waiting to die and the love ones watching you wither away. Also, “the euthanasia was legal in Holland, but illegal
in the United States” (Levinson, 2010), when a country legalized something, it means that are some kind of reason that it was important enough to make it a law. There are assured way to die, like shooting myself, but I don’t want to leave a mess for my love ones to clean up, so logically there needs to be a law for death with dignity and that was what Jack was advocating for. Jack also said, “he wants the right to die with dignity for himself, so when the time comes he can die with dignity” (Levinson, 2010) and I understand him because when the time comes for me I want to die with dignity also. He is a hero because he spoke out for the ones that were suffering and gave them death with dignity as they wished.