Jack Kevorkian's View Of Euthanasia

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thought of you seeing and be with your loved one who is dying or suffering from immense pain is unbearable. If you could end your loved ones ongoing pain and suffering would you do it if they wanted you to? The movie I have recently watched called “You Don’t Know
Jack” was about a retired Michigan pathologist named Jack Kevorkian who became interested in the study of euthanasia and its use to help the terribly diseased and suffering. In the beginning Jack saw a man who was supposedly being held alive against his will because he wanted to die. Jack saw this and decided to build a machine that would assist those that were suffering and deathly diseased die. Many feel that Dr. Kevorkian’s idea of euthanasia is unethical and illegal. Jack has

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