{"id":9995,"date":"2011-06-03T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/jack-kevorkian-doctor-death\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:37:00","slug":"jack-kevorkian-doctor-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/jack-kevorkian-doctor-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Kevorkian, Doctor Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>Wesley J Smith, author and leading campaigner against assisted suicide, says the media fawned over him and failed to see the damage he wrought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think his more important place in contemporary history was as a dark mirror that reflected how powerful the avoidance of suffering has become as a driving force in society, and indeed, how that excuse seems to justify nearly any excess.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kevorkian was prophetic in calling for the creation of euthanasia clinics, which now exist in Switzerland, says Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time will tell whether Kevorkian will be remembered merely as a kook who captured the temporary zeitgeist of the times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or whether he was a harbinger of a society that, in the words of Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne, &#8216;believes in nothing [and] can offer no argument even against death&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13649381\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/fraynelson.org\">Publicado via email<\/a> a partir de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraynelson.org\/jack-kevorkian-doctor-death\">Palabras de camino<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley J Smith, author and leading campaigner against assisted suicide, says the media fawned over him and failed to see the damage he wrought. &#8220;I think his more important place in contemporary history was as a dark mirror that reflected how powerful the avoidance of suffering has become as a driving force in society, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/jack-kevorkian-doctor-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack Kevorkian, Doctor Death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,739],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defensa_de_la_vida","category-eutanasia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}