Download or read book Paging Dr Kevorkian written by Jayme Alan Toomey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jayme Alan Toomey Publishes a Grand Slam Horror Fiction Three gut-wrenching, suspenseful stories in one thrilling book lure in fans everywhere VENTURA, Calif. Gory, grim and perplexing, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a breakthrough realease by horror fiction author Jayme Alan Toomey. Keen in treating fans to an unforgettable reading experience, he collects three utterly confounding stories Breakin Heads, Paging Dr. Kevorkian, and Written in Stupidand puts them together in a book that delivers three times the horror and the thrill. Breakin Heads, follows the queer and shady relationship between Buster Adamsa blonde, green-eyed, 250-pound, six-foot tall rough neckand Lisha Millicenta beautiful, blonde, petite yet voluptuous, and sassy young woman. It is family Thanksgiving dinner at the Millicents. But the atmosphere is far from being familial or thankful. It will not be long before someone loses control and unleashes all hatred caged within. Paging Dr. Kevorkian, is a gripping story that beckons for Dr. Death. Alex Morris is imprisoned in his guilt feelings and his denial for coming to terms with the tragedy that has befallen him and his precious love. Jasmine, a once beautiful wannabe supermodel, is now imprisoned in her wheelchair and her ill feelings blaming Alex for making her an invalid. Gradually, their story spirals deeper and deeper into misery and death. Written in Stupid tells the tale of Octavian Kamara, who can creatively bring to life his most erotic fantasies, is constantly wrapped under the spell of the beautiful and seductive Page. Whether in class, on a trip, or elsewhere, he is always torn between reality and fantasy, horror and romance. Brilliantly-crafted, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a book that definitely engages readers and leaves them baffled long after they have turned the last pages of each of its stories. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com. About the Author Jayme Alan Toomey is the author of Divine Inspiration, The Tag Along, A Passin' On, and Paging Dr. Kevorkian. A native of New England, he now resides in Ventura, California. Paging Dr. Kevorkian * by Jayme Alan Toomey Publication Date: April 16, 2012 Trade Paperback; $23.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8774-7 Trade Hardback; $34.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8775-4 eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4691-8776-1 To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.
Download or read book Paging Dr Kevorkian written by Jayme Alan Toomey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jayme Alan Toomey Publishes a Grand Slam Horror Fiction Three gut-wrenching, suspenseful stories in one thrilling book lure in fans everywhere VENTURA, Calif. Gory, grim and perplexing, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a breakthrough realease by horror fiction author Jayme Alan Toomey. Keen in treating fans to an unforgettable reading experience, he collects three utterly confounding stories "Breakin' Heads," "Paging Dr. Kevorkian," and "Written in Stupid" and puts them together in a book that delivers three times the horror and the thrill. "Breakin' Heads," follows the queer and shady relationship between Buster Adams a blonde, green-eyed, 250-pound, six-foot tall rough neck and Lisha Millicent a beautiful, blonde, petite yet voluptuous, and sassy young woman. It is family Thanksgiving dinner at the Millicents'. But the atmosphere is far from being familial or thankful. It will not be long before someone loses control and unleashes all hatred caged within. "Paging Dr. Kevorkian," is a gripping story that beckons for "Dr. Death." Alex Morris is imprisoned in his guilt feelings and his denial for coming to terms with the tragedy that has befallen him and his precious love. Jasmine, a once beautiful wannabe supermodel, is now imprisoned in her wheelchair and her ill feelings blaming Alex for making her an invalid. Gradually, their story spirals deeper and deeper into misery and death. "Written in Stupid" tells the tale of Octavian Kamara, who can creatively bring to life his most erotic fantasies, is constantly wrapped under the spell of the beautiful and seductive Page. Whether in class, on a trip, or elsewhere, he is always torn between reality and fantasy, horror and romance. Brilliantly-crafted, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a book that definitely engages readers and leaves them baffled long after they have turned the last pages of each of its stories. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com. About the Author Jayme Alan Toomey is the author of Divine Inspiration, The Tag Along, A Passin' On, and Paging Dr. Kevorkian. A native of New England, he now resides in Ventura, California. Paging Dr. Kevorkian * by Jayme Alan Toomey Publication Date: April 16, 2012 Trade Paperback; $23.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8774-7 Trade Hardback; $34.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8775-4 eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4691-8776-1 To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.
Download or read book God Bless You Dr Kevorkian written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
Download or read book Death on Demand written by Michael DeCesare and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves. The book opens with the death of Janet Adkins in 1990—Kevorkian’s first assisted suicide—then travels back to Kevorkian’s medical school days and follows his nearly four decades as a lone activist. Death on Demand draws on Kevorkian’s interviews and published work as well as newspaper and magazine articles to describe the doctor’s publicity stunts, criminal trials, years in prison, and activities after he was paroled. Author Michael DeCesare examines Kevorkian’s actions in the context of the right-to-die movement to understand his crucial role in bringing the controversial practice of assisted suicide into the public conversation.
Download or read book Between the Dying and the Dead written by Neal Nicol Harry Wylie and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jack Kevorkianthe enigmatic and intrepid physician dubbed Dr. Deathhas for years declined public interviews about his life and the events that led him to be a vehement advocate of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. But here, finally, is his own life story, as told to Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in the 1990s for his passionate advocacy of choice for terminal patients, who have increasingly won the right to decide the time, place, and method of their own death in several western countries. In 1998, he assisted Thomas Youk, a terminally ill patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, with a lethal injection that was broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was arrested, charged with second-degree murder, tried, and sentenced to 10-25 years in Michigan's maximum-security prison system. Today, Dr. Kevorkian is in his late seventies and in failing health himself. He shares an eight-by-twelve-foot cell with another inmate in the Thumb Correctional Facility at Lapeer, Michigan. The unique story Prisoner Number 284797 shares far exceeds the battle to legalize euthanasia and end human suffering for terminal patients. Personal choice is really what it is all about. Quality of life, as opposed to maintaining existence (Kevorkian to Vanity Fair, 1994)Co-published with Vision, U.K.
Download or read book Appointment with Doctor Death written by Michael Betzold and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian, discussing his life and his involvement with assisted suicide.
Download or read book Prescription medicide written by Jack Kevorkian and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid, sober, humane discussion of planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation, by the iconoclastic doctor who invented the "suicide machine" and who made headlines in June of 1990 when he aided Janet Adkins in performing the first publicly acknowledged physician-assisted suicide. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Final Exit written by Derek Humphry and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the US in 1991 by the Hemlock Society, it discusses the practicalities of suicide and assisted suicide for those terminally ill, and is intended to inform mature adults suffering from a terminal illness. It also gives guidance to those who may support the option of suicide under those circumstances. The Australian edition was prepared by Dr Helga Kuhse. The author is a US journalist who has written or co-authored books on civil liberties, racial integration and euthanasia and is a past president of the World Federation of Right to Die societies. Sales of the book are category one restricted: not available to persons under 18.
Download or read book Killing and Letting Die written by Bonnie Steinbock and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date. The urgency of this issue can be gauged in recent developments such as the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands, "how-to" manuals topping the bestseller charts in the United States, and the many headlines devoted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has assisted dozens of patients to die. The essays address the range of questions involved in this issue pertaining especially to the fields of medical ethics, public policymaking, and social philosophy. The discussions consider the decisions facing medical and public policymakers, how those decisions will affect the elderly and terminally ill, and the medical and legal ramifications for patients in a permanently vegetative state, as well as issues of parent/infant rights. The book is divided into two sections. The first, "Euthanasia and the Termination of Life-Prolonging Treatment" includes an examination of the 1976 Karen Quinlan Supreme Court decision and selections from the 1990 Supreme Court decision in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Featured are articles by law professor George Fletcher and philosophers Michael Tooley, James Rachels, and Bonnie Steinbock, with new articles by Rachels, and Thomas Sullivan. The second section, "Philosophical Considerations," probes more deeply into the theoretical issues raised by the killing/letting die controversy, illustrating exceptionally well the dispute between two rival theories of ethics, consequentialism and deontology. It also includes a corpus of the standard thought on the debate by Jonathan Bennet, Daniel Dinello, Jeffrie Murphy, John Harris, Philipa Foot, Richard Trammell, and N. Ann Davis, and adds articles new to this edition by Bennett, Foot, Warren Quinn, Jeff McMahan, and Judith Lichtenberg.
Download or read book DYING TO KILL written by Kieran Beville and published by Christian Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of euthanasia and assisted suicide. It traces the historical debate, examines the legal status of such activity in different countries and explores the political, medical and moral matters surrounding these emotive and controversial subjects in various cultural contexts. The key advocates and pioneers of this agenda-driven movement (such as the late Jack Kevorkian, popularly known as “Dr. Death” and Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International) are profiled. Not only are the elderly and disabled becoming increasingly vulnerable but children, psychiatric patients, the depressed and those who are simply tired of life are now on a slippery slope into a dystopian nightmare. The spotlight is brought to bear on the Netherlands, in particular, where palliative care and the hospice movement are greatly underdeveloped as a result of legalization. These dubious “services” are now offered as part of “normal” medical care in Holland where it is deemed more cost-effective to be given a lethal injection. The vital role of physicians as healers in society must be preserved and the important but neglected spiritual dimension of death must be explored. Thus a biblical view of human life is presented. Death and bereavement are universal phenomena and people of all faiths and those of none have a legitimate right to comment. However, the historic Christian tradition is struggling to be heard in the clamor for personal autonomy and civil liberties in a multi-cultural society that is becoming increasingly secular. This work provides an ethical framework in which euthanasia and assisted suicide can be evaluated. These issues are on the radar indicating a collision course with Christian values. It is time for Christians to be alert and to present the case that these are not satisfactory solutions to legitimate end-of-life concerns.
Download or read book Glimmeriqs written by Dr Jack Kevorkian and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by Dr. Jack Kevorkian while he was in prison. It is a memoir. It is an eclectic collection of songs, poems, essays, very striking and beautiful paintings, and much more. Dr. Kevorkian is an artist of the highest caliber. He has a one-of-a-kind worldview. glimmerIQs is one of the most entertaining books the reader will find.
Download or read book The Peaceful Pill Handbook written by Philip Nitschke and published by Exit International US Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Assisted Death written by James M. Humber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-02-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
Download or read book Write to Death written by Elizabeth A. Gailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the mainstream media been careless in reporting on the issue of euthanasia? As the Right to Die and Physician Assisted Suicide movements gather steam, the national media have been too quick to perpetuate and focus on the medical and legal overtones of death. The ethical, religious, and philosophical dimensions of our increased acceptance of euthanizing the aged, infirm, and disabled are often neglected. Gailey argues that the press's failure to enrich public discourse may well erode its trustworthiness in the public's eye. Using abundant examples from analysis of elite, mainstream news publications, Gailey details how the national press systematically advanced pro-euthanasia views and interpretations, while marginalizing or omitting pro-life perspectives and frames. The battle over legalizing passive and active euthanasia has enormous social, economic, and ethical implications. An understanding of how the news media frame or package such issues for public consumption is critical. Gailey's integrative approach combines an exploration of the major historical, ideational, and economic factors leading to the rise of the Right to Die movement, and includes in-depth analysis of the media's framing of the controversy in the two decades Karen Ann Quinlan's coma in 1975 to Dr. Jack Kevorkian's 1999 conviction.
Download or read book A Concise History of Euthanasia written by Ian Dowbiggin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply informed history traces the controversial record of "mercy-killing," a source of heated debate among doctors and laypeople alike. Dowbiggin examines evolving opinions about what constitutes a good death, taking into account the societal and religious values placed on sin, suffering, resignation, judgment, penance, and redemption. He also examines the bitter struggle between those who stress a right to compassionate and effective end-of-life care and those who define human life in terms of either biological criteria, utilitarian standards, a faith in science, humane medical treatment, the principle of personal autonomy, or individual human rights. Considering both the influence of technological and behavioral changes in the practice of medicine and the public's surprising lack of awareness of death's many clinical and biological dimensions, this book raises profound personal and collective questions on the future of euthanasia.
Download or read book The Story of Dissection written by Jack Kevorkian and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Son My Sorrow written by Carol Loving and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carol Loving's 27-year-old son, suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, begged his mother to help him die, she turned to Dr. Jack Kevorkian. "My Son, My Sorrow" is an eloquent, gripping contribution to the debate over "the right to die" which only someone who has lived through this experience with a loved one can provide. of photos.
