Making the click-through worthwhile: how the socially approved suicide of a traumatized 17-year-old girl in the Netherlands proves that anti-euthanasia forces were right when they warned about a slippery slope; Jussie Smollett needs to find new options; and a social-media company surprises us.
The Pro-Lifers Were Right All Along
Let's go back — way back — to 1991. The people of the United States are just getting to know a controversial doctor named Jack Kevorkian. He has assisted in the suicide of a distraught woman named Janet Atkins, administering a series of drugs to her in a lethal combination in the back of a Volkswagen van. Atkins was a woman whose doctor told her there was a 90 percent chance she had Alzheimer's disease, and in a video taped shortly before her death, she spoke in short, clipped sentences. But one of her doctors said she had "three or four" good years left, and she appeared to be in otherwise good physical health, still capable of playing tennis. She was 54 years old.
Kevorkian called the machine he ...
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|  | | | Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: how the socially approved suicide of a traumatized 17-year-old girl in the Netherlands proves that anti-euthanasia forces were right when they warned about a slippery slope; Jussie Smollett needs to find new options; and a social-media company surprises us. The Pro-Lifers Were Right All Along Let's go back — way back — to 1991. The people of the United States are just getting to know a controversial doctor named Jack Kevorkian. He has assisted in the suicide of a distraught woman named Janet Atkins, administering a series of drugs to her in a lethal combination in the back of a Volkswagen van. Atkins was a woman whose doctor told her there was a 90 percent chance she had Alzheimer's disease, and in a video taped shortly before her death, she spoke in short, clipped sentences. But one of her doctors said she had "three or four" good years left, and she appeared to be in otherwise good physical health, still capable of playing tennis. She was 54 years old. Kevorkian called the machine he ... Read More | | | | | | | |  | | Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA
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