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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:33 AM Mar 2020

Rick Wilson: "President Kevorkian's death toll is mounting."

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Rick Wilson ✔@TheRickWilson

President Kevorkian’s death toll is mounting.

NBC News ✔@NBCNews

Arizona man dies after ingesting chloroquine in an attempt to prevent coronavirus.
https://nbcnews.to/2UJwKjF
There are no drugs approved to try to prevent or treat the new coronavirus. Self-medicating to prevent the coronavirus can be dangerous and possibly deadly.

7:29 AM - Mar 24, 2020

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Rick Wilson: "President Kevorkian's death toll is mounting." (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 OP

they took medicine meant to use on their KOI fish becuse an ingredient kinda sounded like samnsara Mar 2020 #1

KOI are ASIAN, what did they expect? denem Mar 2020 #2

He maybe is a Wartime President, but no one is asking if he is a Losing Wartime President. OnDoutside Mar 2020 #3

Kevorkian was a complex figure bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #4

OMG Aquaria Mar 2020 #5

I am not keen on that particular reference. Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #6

samnsara

(17,605 posts)

1. they took medicine meant to use on their KOI fish becuse an ingredient kinda sounded like

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:40 AM

Mar 2020

..what trump* told them to take. This tragedy was preventable...

denem

(11,045 posts)

2. KOI are ASIAN, what did they expect?

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:43 AM

Mar 2020

Chinese medicine is unAmerican.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)

3. He maybe is a Wartime President, but no one is asking if he is a Losing Wartime President.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:47 AM

Mar 2020

bluedye33139

(1,474 posts)

4. Kevorkian was a complex figure

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:50 AM

Mar 2020

I support "death with dignity" laws and am proud to live in a state that allows patients with a documented life-ending condition to request life-ending interventions. But Kevorkian was a really dodgy person, starting his career with a plan to harvest the organs of prisoners after execution and moving on to assist in killing people in an outpatient setting.

A handful of the people Kevorkian helped were simply middle-aged people with depression who believed they were a burden to their families.

Kevorkian was in many ways a dreadful figure and possibly the worst person to represent the subject of assisted suicide, and I often wish that he wasn't such a problematic figure. It almost taints the Death with Dignity subject, but luckily states have continued to look at this issue and to agree: a person who has been given a death date by their medical providers should have the option of suicide.