107: Dr. Kevorkian

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

I was going back and forth on if this could make a good case for 7DS but I decided it is the perfect case. While I don’t believe that Jack Kevorkian was a sinner or a saint, I believe he was a compassionate pioneer who was grappling with his own generational trauma in the face of the difficulty of being a doctor who has to watch people wither away and suffer - The crossroads of the death he knew as a child intersected with his profession and the unimaginable pain he had to walk his patients through on a daily basis until one day one of them just said Jack…. I’m done… I can’t do this anymore ….and Jack in his own weird way felt too much empathy not to oblige.

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0:00.0	Hey Pride members, you can listen to Seven Deadly Sinners,
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0:45.0	What do you say to people who say Dr. Kavokian, you are playing God.
0:49.0	Well, so as a doctor who takes your heart from one body and puts it in another, isn't it?
0:53.0	A doctor always plays God even when he gives you a pill because he's interfering with a natural process.
1:15.0	Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners.
1:19.0	Rachel here, your resident empath and it shouldn't come as a shock at this point,
1:24.0	but this case made me extremely emotional.
1:28.0	I don't know why I wasn't expecting it because I don't think there'd be a human on this planet
1:33.0	that wouldn't become emotional over this subject and you'll hear why very soon.
1:38.0	So let's jump in.
1:40.0	And as always, thank you guys so much for listening and please take care when listening to this episode.
1:46.0	It is a rough one, but we're going to get through it together.
1:51.0	So this is the case of Dr. Jack Kavokian and Dr. Assisted Suicide,
1:59.0	but it is so much more than that.
2:01.0	This is about the complicated nature of humans, ethics, religion,
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