A Serial Killer

They don't know Jack like I know Jack. A new HBO Bio of Jack Kevorkian is due to air shortly. The title is "You Don't Know Jack". The stars are Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon ... no surprise there. Let me tell you a few facts about Jack the Serial Killer.

 

Kevorkian wanted to experiment on the brains and nervous systems of the people he was euthanizing. Kevorkian wrote the book, "Prescription Medicine" in 1991. An interesting book, considering Jack was an unemployed pathologist. Jack developed the "Kevorkian Machine", which would allow those whom he had chosen to assist in their death, to push the button themselves; thereby making them the perpetrators of their own death, with a little help from Jack.

 

Most people now a days don't know Jack, because the euthanasia movement has progressed, largely due to his groundwork. They don't know him because he has spent time in federal prison for killing and assisting to kill his victims.

 

Most of Dr. Kevorkian's victims did not have terminal illnesses. About 70% were disabled. Five of his victims were discovered, upon autopsy, to not even be sick. Jack never cared much about alleviating the suffering of patients ( he even admitted to forgetting their names ). But he called his killing a distasteful professional obligation.

 

Jack was good at language too. He coined the term, "Obitiatry", defined to describe experimenting on people, as part of the practice of human euthanasia. This is Jack's quote, "If we are ever to penetrate the mystery of death-even superficially-it will have to be through obitiatry ... but knowledge about the essence of human death, will of necessity, require insight into the nature of the unique awareness of consciousness that characterizes cognitive human life. This is possible only through obitiatric research on living human bodies, and most likely by concentrating on the central nervous system.

 

Sounds like "Silence of the Lambs" or Dr. Mengele, please call your office. Why would HBO produce a biography on a serial killer; who happens to be a nutcase? Why are Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon starring in such a bio? Why would anyone watch it?

 

Will Jack Kevorkian become a new super-hero for our kids? If so, parents may be euthanized shortly.