According to the Hollywood Reporter, Al Pacino is in negotiations to star in “You Don’t Know Jack,” an HBO Films biopic about Dr. Jack Kevorkian also known as “Doctor Death”. The film will be directed and executive produced by Barry Levinson.
Kevorkian, a former pathologist and jazz musician, is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient’s right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that “dying is not a crime.”
Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on June 1, 2007, on parole due to good behavior.
On January 15, 2008, Kevorkian gave his largest public lecture since his release from prison, “My aim was to end suffering. It’s got to be decriminalized.”
Here’s a clip of Dr. Jack Kevorkian on CNN’s Larry King Live!
Euthanasia needs to be evaluated thoroughly. It might be an answer to the challenges we currently face. Examples are poverty, non-employment, over population, resource scarcity and depletion, global warming due to high demands of pollution agents. Compared to the already vastly legalised abortion, in this case an individual is given the right to make a decision on their life.