A doctor with a prescription for headlines by Alessandra Stanley

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This article describes both the good and bad sides of Dr. Kevorkian and the assisited suicides that he has been involved in. The good side portrays the fact that most people do not know Jack, aka Dr. Kevorkian. In the article there is a quote of him saying something to his sister, "You know, she had that same look of agony on her face, just like Mother. It's not living you know, it's not being alive." This presents the empatheitic side of him. He shows feelings for his lost mother and how she is better off where she is now than to suffer here in our world. In this article, Stanley states in the beginning that it is possible to love the sin and hate the sinner. What she means by this is that what he was trying to help or accomplish was good. In other words, helping someone, but wat he did or had to do to accomplish this was not so great.

I do not believe that this article is logically and effectivly supported. She does not present any source of her being credited or where she got her information in this essay and she makes references to a movie which is not credible in any occasion. There was no evidence included that was relevant to the topic. Intended audience for this essay would most likely include anyone interested in reading about assisted suicide and gaining any information about Dr. Kevorkian and the movie that came out imitiating his actions and assisted suicides. I was definitly not persuaded by this article in the fact that assisted suicide is alright within today's society.

I was not persuaded by this article and my opinion on this topic still stands as it was before I read the article. After reading this article it made me feel even stronger about my approach to the topic. Assisted suicide is murder. Someone's life does not and should not lie in the hands of someone else. There is the other side of the argument in how people are better off in a differnent place than here on earth, but that is God's decision as to when it is someone's time to leave. Not a doctor's.