Doctor Death | |, 2010 United States | biography
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"Death" from ancient times to the present, has always been a taboo topic, it and "birth" belongs to a certain stage of human life, but it is not as popular as "birth", we cheer and celebrate for "birth", but cry and sad for "death".
Even in order to be able to stay in this world for one more second, it is better to choose lai to live than to die well. Indeed, "birth" is the beginning, and "death" means the end, who would like to end themselves?
We have done so many absurd things in order to stay away from death forever, until despair makes us realize that "death" may meet us sooner or later, and now more and more people are beginning to accept this reality, to live well, to live well, to die well.
In this process, there are many people from all walks of life who have made efforts and contributions to this, they have been controversial and persecuted, but they still insist, because only by objectively looking at the inevitability of human life cycle can we better enjoy and treat each stage.
Today recommends a biographical film "Doctor Death" starring Godfather Al Pacino, "Doctor Death" Jack Covokian is a pioneer in the promotion of euthanasia, the first person in the United States to legalize euthanasia, a retired old doctor, a real character story who fights to defend the death rights of patients and seek euthanasia legalization.
Jack feels that everyone has the right to decide their own life and death, and can choose how to end their own lives, what do you think?
Jack Kowarkien is a retired old doctor who should have enjoyed the quiet old age after retirement, but he could not calm down for a long time because he was worried about an unfulfilled wish.
In Jack's life, he has seen too many deaths, and more is: not good to die!
When he was a child, he was his mother, and when he grew up, he was a friend and family and a patient he saw in the hospital, and he was tormented by illness rather than death, an incurable disease, a pain that did not want to live, but he was pulled back again and again to continue to endure pain until he died.
Jack laments these humanoid suffering people who are tormented by illness, and he believes that everyone should have the right to choose their own death or survival.
Before he retired, he was a doctor at the hospital, and there was nothing he could do to comply with the hospital's medical practice.
After retirement, he is an independent individual, and he is going to help the terminally ill and miserable patients and the families of the same tortured patients, to help them get liberated and leave this world with dignity, just as decently as they came to this world.
He persuaded his sister Marg to join him in this mission-minded undertaking, and at first they tried to go to the hospital to spread the word.
But at that time, euthanasia was still illegal and not respected in the United States, so he was very self-congratulatory, and Jack was kicked out as a "madman".
Until his first patient appeared, a terminally ill woman who had been tormented by illness for many years, Jack jerkily completed his first case in the suburbs.
He was arrested by the police on suspicion of murder.
He was also released due to insufficient evidence, because the entire execution process was done by the patient independently, and Jack only explained on the side to assist the patient to commit suicide.
With experience, soon, there were patients two, three, and、......, more and more patients found Jack.
Jack has also been accused of "assisted suicide" several times, was invited to the police station for coffee, and was released for insufficient evidence.
At his sister's suggestion, Jack met the lawyer who had made a great contribution to his promotion of euthanasia: Fig. Not only did he support Jack's euthanasia promotion cause, but he also worked as Jack's defense lawyer for free, helping him deal with social and legal disputes.
Figer's company was like a divine help to Jack, and more and more patients were looking for him to euthanize, and he felt that he was doing the right thing, and slowly began to swell, and he could no longer listen to the advice of others. Unabashedly confronting the U.S. police, the number of assisted suicide patients has risen to the point where the police have to act.
Under the pressure of public opinion from all sides, the police detained Jack, Figer used legal procedures to bail him and was not allowed, and finally Jack used hunger strike to make the police finally compromise, but also clearly restricted Jack's purchase of raw materials to make "death equipment".
This makes it difficult for Jack to walk, coupled with the death of his sister, Figer's opposite (Figer is no longer so supportive of the euthanasia project for his career path, but his friendship with Jack is still unchanged), personally sending his terminally ill friend to die, this series of things further stimulated Jack to adhere to the medical service project of euthanasia.
Jack continued to provide euthanasia services to patients, and the video of euthanasia surgery was published in the media, which led to a heated discussion among the whole people.
His aim was for the police to have to prosecute him so he could go to the Supreme Court and ask for the addition of such a law, and euthanasia could be enforced nationwide.
But the result was not as Jack expected, and the national law was not something that a person could easily change if he wanted to, even if his original intention was for the patient to get rid of the torment of illness and be relieved as soon as possible.
It is a matter of life and death, it is about life, once the law easily opens this mouth, and there is no sound mechanism to protect it, then there will be many outlaws who will seize this crack and do illegal things.
In the end, Jack lost the case, he was convicted of grade 2 murder, sentenced to 15-25 years in prison, and finally released from prison after 8 and a half years due to a recurrence of hepatitis in the last months of his life.
He died in the early hours of June 3, 2011 at the age of 83.
It was Jack who brought euthanasia to the United States, it was he who dropped a seed of "I can decide my own life and death" in the hearts of the people, and to this day, the euthanasia system in the United States is still a hot topic of public discussion.
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