Assisted Suicide Advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian to Be Released From Prison!!

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I Thought He Was Dead! I remember when he was big news with his home made death machine. What is your opinion about assisted suicide? For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes." His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states. But as he prepares to leave prison June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the death of a Michigan man, Kevorkian will find that there's still only one state that has a law allowing physician-assisted suicide — Oregon. Kevorkian's release could spur another round of efforts, if only to prevent anyone else from following his example."One of the driving forces of the (Oregon) law was to prevent the Jack Kevorkians from happening," said Kate Davenport, a communications specialist at the Death with Dignity National Center in Portland, Ore., which defended Oregon's law against challenges."It wasn't well regulated or sane," she said. "There were just too many potential pitfalls."Kevorkian, 79, was criticized even by assisted suicide supporters because of his unconventional practices. He used a machine he'd invented to administer fatal drugs and dropped off bodies at hospital emergency rooms or coroner's offices, or left them to be discovered in the motel rooms where he often met those who wanted his help. Full Story http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275712,00.html