and practitioners of physician assisted suicide is Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who currently faces trial for video-taping one of his assisted euthanasia patients on national television. The patient had Lou Gehrig’s disease, one of the diseases that best illustrates the need for making physician assisted euthanasia legal. Since legality often predicates morals and ethics in society, the issue has emerged strongly enough as an issue to be transferred to the justice system. As the prosecutor who brought charges against Kevorkian said, “The time has come for Kevorkian’s violation of the laws and the involvement in the complicated moral, legal and ethical issue to be resolved in a court of law, by a jury of peers and not in the headlines of the media or editorial pages” (Kevorkian 1). The patient’s consent was given, but David Gorcyca, the prosecutor from Oakland, County, feels it is premeditated murder. Obviously, Gor
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