Ailing Kevorkian says he won't opt for suicide

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Ailing Kevorkian says he won't opt for suicide
Kevorkian weighs 113 pounds, say lawyers who seek his parole

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Jack Kevorkian, whose failing health may deny him a chance to be paroled, said he still believes in assisted suicide but would not choose it for himself. "Remember that I did not advocate assisted suicide," Kevorkian, 78, said in a written response to questions from The Detroit News published Thursday. "I only advocated that a person should have the right to have the option if he or she, in sound mind, needed and desired it while in irremedial pain and suffering and terminal."

Kevorkian claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s. Since being imprisoned in April 1999 for his role in the last of the deaths, the former pathologist has promised he would not assist in a suicide if he was released from prison. "Only as a person who will speak out to its legalization," he told The News. "I will not be involved otherwise."

Kevorkian is being held at the Lakeland Correctional Facility near Coldwater in southwestern Michigan. He is eligible for parole in June 2007 but his attorney, Mayer Morganroth, has said he doubts he will live that long. In court papers, Kevorkian's defense lawyers say he weighs 113 pounds, resembles a "walking cadaver" and "can barely walk and no longer has the energy to read or write." The Michigan Parole Board has rejected four of Kevorkian's requests for early release...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/13/kevorkian.ap/index.html

[Deja Q]

1. Sounds hypocritical to me, but what do I know?

:shrug:

[LiberalVoice]

3. Why?

Did you read his explanation? Its right there. He believes that people should have the choice. He chooses not too. How is that hypocritical?

[serryjw]

4. It is no different than a woman

that is pro-choice but would not persoanlly have an abortion.

[Skink]

2. ....

:wow: