The face of euthanasia

Seems like everyone would know Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s immense role in spreading the cause of death on demand. Not so, is the premise of an HBO special on ‘Dr. Death’.

“You Don’t Know Jack” is the perfect title for the upcoming HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as Death Doc Jack Kevorkian — because it is clear that many of Kevorkian’s fawning interviewers don’t know much about Jack…

Kevorkian was a pathologist until his medical license was yanked in 1991. In 1999, a Michigan jury convicted him of second-degree murder after he gave a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

As for the risible notion that his victims were terminally ill, well, it collapses in the harsh light of a New England Journal of Medicine analysis of the autopsies of 69 Kevorkian cases in Oakland County, Mich. The report found that three-quarters of Kevorkian’s “patients” were not terminally ill. Indeed, five showed no evidence of disease.

And yet the idea of “mercy killing” he pushed for so long has been mainstreamed by the right-to-die movement in their marketing campaigns that turn on distorting the language. For these activists, it’s important to soft-sell the idea of willfully ending life.

Kevorkian’s interview on Fox News revealed as much.

President Obama cannot be happy that Kevorkian gave a quasi-endorsement of Obamacare on Cavuto’s show. “The death panel makes it sound so negative,” he grimaced.

Never mind the reality.