In response to William Sanchez's letter concerning Jack Kevorkian, I have just one question: Why waste your time caring about this situation? I would really like to know how his opinion would change after being confronted with a lifetime of pain and suffering without end. Would he decide to keep on truckin', or would he throw in the towel and end his own life? Would he call up Kevorkian and employ his expertise in the matter? If I ever reached a point in my life where the only thing that greeted me with every new day was the grim reality of more pain and agony, then heck, put me out of my misery!
Kevorkian helps people, plain and simple. It is no one's business to interfere with a chronic pain sufferer who chooses to lay down his or her burden and depart this world. As far as experimenting on prisoners on death row, why not? If something good comes out of experimenting on someone whose only wish is to tear society apart at the seams, then so be it. In fact, why don't we start offering deals to prisoners: Donate a healthy kidney, get five years off your sentence.
Kevorkian should not be vilified, but rather applauded in his attempt to ease the suffering of people who have done nothing to deserve such a fate. In fact, there should be more people like him.
