Jack isn’t in a hurry today.

Says Madame X:

This is interesting because it is hard to imagine Kevorkian in his glory days not egging on someone in his own present condition. Old, imprisoned, and (in the words of his lawyers) a "walking cadaver," Kevorkian today certainly seems to fit the bill of someone who'd be better off dead. Many of his former patient/victims were in no worse straits, and where Jack saw "irremedial pain and suffering," he thought it best to cut to the chase. They were going to die anyway, so why not hasten the inevitable in the interests of pity?

So while there are still a few morons out there who consider him a ‘political prisoner’, the truth is out there.

Out of Kevorkian's more than 130 victims, a minority had terminal illnesses; most were people with disabilities who were not terminally ill. According to a review of Kevorkian's victims by the Detroit Free Press in 1997, 60% did not have terminal conditions.

Ironically, proponents became inheritors of Malthus’ philosophy, where we have to tell ourselves (much like environmentalists) that we weren’t welcome on this world to begin with. Being based solely on laziness and personal despondency it doesn’t so much speak to his thesis as much as it goads it. Fighting the reflex to strive to live, one has to ask the question “who’s paying to promote this?”

Thus we find colliding with it too something one can barely call a philosophical concept meeting the icky business of living and contending with serious decisions. Largely able-bodied and healthy, those who won’t contend will flatter their egos with something that seems to sound humanistic which is nothing more than a desire to avoid morally founded choices, deferring to a mushy notion that one shouldn’t burdening others is a meaningful substitute.

It’s little more than a prisoner’s choice. The only reason anyone is thinking that way is because of the collectivism which makes every individual into a ward, and turns the entirety of their well-being into an imposition on society.

The debate resulting from his notoriety has made useful examples for those who don’t necessarily want people to be able to freely choose over the terms of their own lives, but for issues as pedestrian as nationalized health systems to get rid of them of them without that same choice. Human problem disposal for the state that assumed the responsibility and control of all human welfare. Pretty damn earthly, and awfully empty headed for people taking regard of their own lives as well, if you ask me.

The fuse is lit!