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Depending on how you look at it, it’s either really, really late or way too early. It’s 4:37 a.m., and I’ve just ended up watching MSNBC for most of the night. The focus was on the NATO bombing of Serbia, but there also was a small piece on the Kevorkian case and the conviction on 2nd degree murder which was handed down on Friday.This particular segment on MSNBC was a prime example of how the media by and large plays their own games with their own agenda when it comes to reporting news. It’s not even a matter of giving all sides of any ‘issue’ equal and fair play, but it’s about “what is good for ratings” and “what can further the goals of the powers-that-be of this organization”.

There were several panelists being asked questions about the Kevorkian trial, but amazingly enough, they were nearly all some sort of attorney. There wasn’t a single person on the show which was any kind of advocate of “the right to die” or any supporters of Kevorkian. MSNBC had stacked the deck to further its own goals.

These various and sundry prosecutors and generic ambulance chasers talked as they always do, about the importance of the conviction, with no regard as to whether or not the law which is involved in the case is morally right or wrong. They talked about things which in the end have no real bearing on anybody’s lives who count in this mess. They talked about ‘legal finesse’, not about human suffering.

There wasn’t one person on the panel who gave even lip service concerning the basic fundamental right of an individual, who is otherwise of sound mind, to decide their own fate. In particular, the right of an individual who sees nothing left in life but pain and suffering for themselves and their loved ones to choose to no longer suffer. The morons on this panel discussed ‘statutes’ and ‘legal procedures’. Like any blood sucking parasitic lawyer, the focus was on themselves.

I was truly disgusted. Disgusted with the farce of a trial, disgusted with MSNBC and all the people who would take a personal and private matter which is already painful enough, and make it something “for the village to decide.”

Kevorkian was barely incidental in this. He made something which was already horrible for this man and his family less horrible than it might have been. I suppose these panelists would have preferred that Thomas Youk put a shotgun barrel to his chin instead.

The bottom line is, this is MY life. If I have an illness which is torturing me and by extension my family, causing me physical pain and/or emotional torment for me and my loved ones, it is my decision to make if I decide that life is no longer worth living. Nobody else on this planet has the right to decide this for me. If your religion or conscience or whatever tells you that ending your life to end your suffering is wrong, well, more power to you. However, you ONLY have the right to choose this for YOURSELF. You do not have the right to impose your belief on anyone else. Dr. Kevorkian shouldn’t even have been on trial. The freedom to make our own decisions concerning our own destiny was what was really on trial… and we lost.

-Eric

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