New York Times Disses Dr. Kevorkian

In an editorial in today's (June 5, 2007) New York Times, the editor states:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian — a k a “Doctor Death” for helping chronically ill and terminally ill patients commit suicide — has emerged from prison as deluded and unrepentant as ever. Brushing aside criticism by other supporters of medically assisted suicide that his tactics were reckless and harmful to their cause, Dr. Kevorkian asserted: “I did it right. I didn’t care what they did or didn’t do. When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right.”

The irony, of course, is that he did it wrong, and in performing assisted suicides so badly, he besmirched the movement he hoped to energize. * * *

The fundamental flaw in Dr. Kevorkian’s crusade was his cavalier, indeed reckless, approach.

See Editorial, Dr. Kevorkian’s Wrong Way, NY Times, June 5, 2007.