On Thursday, April 15, 2010, John Goodman was a guest on The View, following a discussion on the merits of assisted death, as a result of the HBO movie premier about Dr. Kevorkian.

Why John Goodman? Because he portrays Neal Nicol, Dr. Kevorkian’s friend and assistant, in the HBO production, You Don’t Know Jack, which premiered in New York on Wednesday night, April 14.

Thumbs down for John Goodman, who was so fucked up, on who knows what, that he failed to say anything about the movie. He failed to live up to his contractual obligation to PROMOTE the work. If I were HBO, I would sue him for breach of contract.

The showcase of John Goodman on behalf of You Don’t Know Jack was a promotional failure.

By the way, my beloved Nick left this world in the home of the REAL NEAL NICOL!

Good Death, the play brought to life through the collaborative gifted talents of the theatrical group at Western Michigan University and the esteemed Tectonic director, Kelli Simpkins, portrays the truth about Dr. Kevorkian.

Kalamazoo residents are just the first to see the doctor for who he really is, as a result of the most powerful ground-breaking play of the 21 century. Good Death is an electrifying work that will forever change the way this country looks at the doctor, those he helped, and the phenomenon we call death.

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.

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!

Last month, while I was taking a break from the strenuous activity of working on several projects, I was contacted  by a member of the theatrical group at Western Michigan University.

Working under the tutelage of a professional theater group out of New York City (Tectonic Theater Project), Western Michigan University will be putting together a socially significant production on the topic of Death, Dying, & Euthanasia, for the people of Kalamazoo.

I was interviewed and would like to share some of that interview with you. The first question posed is one of particular interest to me:  How do you define death?

I found the question to be provocative in the true sense of the word, stimulating!

The way people define death says more about the individual than the actual final curtain and the final bow we make before the curtain drops, and, I found that there was no simple answer to the complex question.

I will share my answer with you tomorrow!

Nova Southeastern University was the hub of activity and security last week, when 2500 people gathered together to listen to my hero, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, discuss the rights of free people living in a free society and the recognizable patterns of behavior associated with FASCISM!

His presence created a stir and a bit of unrest for those who were either shocked by or disagreed with the content of his speech, which was accentuated by the startling visual effects created by the brave doctor: A flag, a regulation size American flag with a white star-studded swastika boldly displayed in the blue corner!

A swastika, the official emblem of the Nazi Party!

Why would a highly educated, intelligent physician associate the Nazi swastika with the government of America? Because he is a highly educated, intelligent man who understands the difference between a free society and a powerful fascist regime, that is why.

Do you believe you have the right to determine the manner and timing of your own death?

Eighty percent of America’s population believe they should have the right to make that determination without government intervention and/or prohibition. The rest of the population is fearful of meeting with their own destiny with death and driven by dogmatic religious fanaticism.

Those driven by religious hatred of Dr. Kevorkian have targeted the doctor with threats on his life. Their madness created the need for the university to create a large presence of police and security for the doctor’s protection.

Police protection for an innocent man, who has evolved into America’s martyr for the cause. Dr. Kevorkian is a man who believes in (1) the protection of human rights against government tyranny, (2) the need to reform America’s penal system to include a humane sanctuary system, and, (3) the necessity to reform public education.

Was there justification for the good doctor to put a swastika on the American flag?

I think so and I will tell you why in my next post.

My beloved twin son, Nick, had the grave misfortune to be stricken down by a syndrome the world once called creeping paralysis, an unstoppable electrochemical imbalance that takes the essence of life away from human flesh and causes it to die on the bone. Lou Gehrig’s syndrome, an inescapable death sentence.

Nick was diagnosed in October of 1993 (after noted physical decline all year) and by May of 1994, when life had been reduced to torment and torture and he had nothing to look forward to except further decline Nick expressed a desire and a need to die. He wanted a doctor to look at his paralyzing terminal condition through his heart and mind, not through cold indifference and lack of mercy for the suffering he was forced to endure.

Would a doctor in Arizona help Nick Loving die so he would no longer have to suffer?

Such a question is punishable under the dictates of medical tyranny. Asking a doctor for help to die means you will be labeled a mentally unstable individual, subject to incarceration in a mental institution. The doctor has all the power and the dying have none.

Can you imagine your son begging you to end his life because a doctor would not help him?

Thank God Dr. Kevorkian responded to his plea for mercy. It took the burden off my shoulders and kept me from going to prison for assisting my son in his need to die fully and completely and, thus, end the torment and torture the syndrome caused him to suffer.

It was Friday, May 12, 1995, when my beloved son was granted his last wish. Before he left this world to take up life in the next, Dr. Kevorkian asked my son, at the end of an interview, if he had any last words for the  world. My son, who could barely articulate due to the dead muscles in his throat, responded by saying,

“Yes, I would like to quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”