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102-106 15 February 2012 Essay Response A Case of Assisted Suicide In A Case of Assisted Suicide Jack Kevorkian explains his reasoning behind why he agrees to assist his patients commit suicide. One can agree assisted suicide should be the very last option in patients that will eventually suffer in the final stages of life. When contacted by Ron about Janet and a new experimental trial, Kevorkian says, I concurred that Janet should enroll . . . (Pg. 318). Janet enrolls in the program, but it is stopped because the medicine does not work, and Janets condition actually becomes worse, meaning that Janet had in fact . . . exhausted every potentially medical intervention, no matter how remotely promising (Pg. 318). Assisted suicide is the last option Janet has, other than to suffer with the final stages of Alzheimers, which would not be an ideal death for anybody. Assisted suicide is not necessarily murder, but rather, a chance for one that is still mentally competent to die somewhat peacefully in the final stages of life with a disease like Cancer or Alzheimers, so one will not suffer. Kevorkian, Jack. "A Case of Assisted Suicide." Power of Language Language of Power A Collection of Readings. Vol. Second Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2011. 317-323. Print.