Dr Jack Kevorkian: 1928-2011 (fill in the gaps exercise in the moodle)

INTERVIEW WITH JACK KEVORKIAN: I HAVE NO REGRETS BEING DR DEATH

THESE ARE THE INTERVIEWER'S QUESTIONS. WHAT ARE JACK'S ANSWERS?

What was life in prison like for you?

Would he help people to commit suicide, to end their lives now?

Have you changed your mind about assisted suicide?

If you had an opportunity to rewind the clock, would you have done anything differently?

Would you have helped people to die earlier?

So in terms of helping people to die, in terms of assisted suicide you have no regrets?

Let me ask you Dr Kevorkian about the Michael Jackson case. As you know , his doctor Conrad Murray is under investigation, potential manslaughter charges are what he could face because that’s alleged that he gave Michael Jackson a dose of Diprivan, otherwise known as Propofol that contributed to his death. Do you think that he should face charges for his role in the demise of Michael Jackson? 

So is it right for a doctor just to say it’s what the patient wants, this is what I’m going to give the patient?

EYE TO EYE ASSISTED SUICIDE (CBS NEWS)

WATCH THE VIDEO AND TRY TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

1. Terry Youk feels….................................
2. He thinks Jack ….............................................
3. He doesn’t think that the medical service Jack provided .......................….....................................................
4. According to him, Jack was the only person that  was willing to............... ......................................................................................................
5. Jack provided for people a ….............................................................
6. His brother didn’t want to be the …....................................................
7. He thinks that we need some ...........................................................
8. It becomes macabre when people have to ..........................................…....................................................................................................
9. They couldn’t be present when his brother died for ...............................…....................................
10. He thinks there should be a ..............................................................…................................................................. for people to have this option available for them.
11. He is very …........................ to Jack. He feels he was a .........................………………………....................................……
12. According to the lady the pro-movement is advocating  for .....................…….................................................................................................
13. She thinks the solution is to provide ..................................................…......, help …….........................................., provide ........................…....................................…  and not ……........................................
14. She’s worried that in the future not only will people who ask for it have suicide,  people who…..................................................................... to engage in suicide

FRENCH WOMAN'S DEATH REVIVES EUTHANASIA DEBATE

Imagine going from this to this. Nearly 8 years ago, 52-year-old Chantal Sebire was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that hurled into her nasal cavity causing her nose to swell, one of her eyes to come out of its sockets and making her life a living nightmare.

"It is not only the face", she says, "some of my bones are eaten into. I don’t have any upper and lower jaws".

Wednesday, Sebire was found dead in her apartment in Eastern France . That was just two days after a French court rejected her plea for a lethal dose of barbiturates that could be administered in a doctor-assisted suicide. "We are sad", this neighbor says, "because she left without getting what she was asking for".

Sebire’s case captured the public’s attention when the French press published before-and-after pictures that brought her suffering into sharper focus.

Euthanasia is legal in some European countries, but not in France. Even so, the debate goes on. It’s not clear yet how she died, but she left behind three children ranging in age from 13 to 29.

Her lawyer says the illness left her blind with no sense of smell or taste and the neighbour says she didn’t want to live any more in the state she was in.