Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the leader in the humane treatment to the terminally ill or of a painfully old ago.
Murder? No, murder implies it wasn't wanted. Assisted suicide? No, that implies he helped the patient in the process, but he did not, he just set the machine up. Avatar of the right to die? Oh yes. Everyone has the right to die, no matter what their religion feels is morally correct; law != religiously moral.
I may not have necessarily agreed with the method (the Thanatron wasn't too bad, but the Mercitron was) due to the length of dying and the pain of asphyxiation. While it is believed that some suffer from a certain euphoria, it is usually an interruption between severe pains. While I realize any more involvement on Kevorkian's part could be perceived as murder, as the patient wasn't the one throwing the switch, there were better ways to do it (IV to the jugular, not the arm for instance).
It is unfortunate people don't want the right to die legalized, at least until they are in the situation in which it would be utilized; people just think about themselves, not the person dying. Why should the living suffer from having their relative with them no longer through artificial means when they could linger for months or years, fuck the pain, and die naturally, you know, how God intended? I think they're also afraid of the abuses, but the abusers wouldn't need any right to die laws in order to put something like that into effect. We sure are a selfish, narrow-minded lot.
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