Good Death is coming to Kalamazoo!

Theater students at Western Michigan University have  undertaken the task of presenting to you a comprehensive look at human mortality in society. Their original play is a collaborative work by the WMU theater students and members of the acclaimed Tectonic Theater Project.

Good Death is an original play based upon thought-provoking research and interviews on the topic Dr. Jack Kevorkian brought to light in 1990: death, dying, and euthanasia. It has taken 19 years to evolve to this point!

I look forward to the theatrical production and my trip to Michigan to meet with the talent dedicated to broaching the most important issue of human life: mortal certainty.

Bulletin

The good doctor is out on the road again.

Look for him in Kutztown, Pennsylvania,  where he will appear at Schaeffer Auditorium, on Sunday, September 20, 2009, at seven o’clock in the evening. There is no cost to the public to witness the enduring character of a man who has done more for social evolution than any other contemporary individual.

Dr. Kevorkian will discuss civil rights, civil disobedience, and criminal justice.

SFGate, home of the SF Chronicle, is littered with hatred for a man, a doctor, named Kevorkian. You can see for yourself, if you care to read the opinion piece entitled You Really Don’t Know Jack, written by Debra J. Sanders.

She believes she knows more about the world renowned Dr. Kevorkian than the “fawning interviewers” who have posed questions at him. Miss Sanders is ill informed on the reality about death, dying, and euthanasia in this nation & equally ill informed regarding the doctor she hates.

She stated Dr. Kevorkian engaged in “mercy killings for healthy people.” She even said that “some of Kevorkian’s victims were not even sick.”

The Internet is full of this garbage. Her tone and hatred for the good doctor reminded me of another voice out there on the web, and what do you know? It is the voice of her husband, Wesley J. Smith.

I had to laugh! People with nothing but opinions acting out of pompous ego! Best of all, the comments left by readers were not impressed with her opinions.

September 2, 2009

goes down as a red letter day on the calendar in the United States of America,
the rapidly metamorphosing nation to come under the rule
of the fanatical fascist power of medicine.

On that remarkable Wednesday,
Fox Network interviewed the country’s most intelligent citizen and, by far,
the most honest doctor anyone will ever hear speak,
the most honorable doctor,
Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

The interview was conducted by Neil Cavuto,
a glossy Fox network talking head, who I guess gave his best shot
to interview the most famous man of the 1990’s and the most famous doctor
ever associated with the protracted struggle we face
to die by the wish of human will,
rather than the dictates of the pernicious
laws of medicine.

As someone experienced with the deaths of two beloved twin sons,
I could see that Mr. Cavuto was without experience
in the arena of death, dying, and euthanasia.
Of course, that is the way Fox wants it:
Have the blind lead the blind.

Whatever the reason might be for Fox to interview Dr. Kevorkian,
it was the right thing to do on the part of the media.
We will be seeing more of Dr. Kevorkian
now that he is free to speak his mind and HBO is making a film
on his remarkable contribution to society!

You Don’t Know Jack.
But I do!

Thank GOD for Dr. Kevorkian!

Sounds like a smart ass remark, as though someone were going to say: You don’t know jack shit! But that is not what it is.

You Don’t Know Jack is the title of HBO’s biography about Dr. Kevorkian, due out next spring. In the year 2010, HBO will present you its viewers a motion picture depiction of America’s courageous doctor, who put his life on the line to help the terminally suffering individuals escape the tyranny of the AMA and die in peace.

We are making progress in the effort to raise the interest of medical compassion and the truth about Dr. Kevorkian, but the choice of actor to portray the compassionate, selfless doctor is Al Pacino.

Al Pacino?

In 1996, before I signed a book contract for My Son, My Sorrow, HBO put a great deal of consideration into a contract for the movie rights. It was an almost that got sidestepped. Had they made the offer, I wonder who they would have selected to play Dr. Kevorkian. Surely, it would not have been Al Pacino.

In 2001, when Castle Rock Entertainment offered a contract for the movie rights of My Son, My Sorrow, who did they have in mind to play Dr. Kevorkian? Surely, it would not  have been Al Pacino.

At least, this is a major step by a motion picture production company to attempt to bring about social recognition of a man intrinsically important to our social consideration of life and death, freedom and slavery.

Medical slavery.