Recently Al Pacino played Jack Kevorkian in a HBO movie called "You Don't Know Jack." Kevorkian was also the subject of an HBO documentary called simply "Kevorkian" which aired June 28, 2010.The ladies of "The View" talked about this movie and they viewed things in an emotional way.
Whoopi Goldberg described Jack Kevorkian as a "doctor who had invented a machine to help terminally ill people voluntarily end their lives painlessly."
"It's a very lonely thing to take your own life. You need help with that. When you're very ill, and you're in pain, and the life quality is horrifying, you need help with that," said Joy Behar.
Barbara Walters talked as if Kevorkian had been hounded by the law unfairly and was heroic in his efforts to stand up for what is right."They took his medical license away," she said. "They prosecuted him three times. They finally found him guilty and he served seven years in prison. I interviewed him four times. He was interesting and rather weird. He fully believed people should have this right. He didn't have to go to jail. He could have copped a plea."
Then we were treated to a clip from the HBO movie in which Kevorkian explains how he turned away 90% of the people who want his help, and how he demands a second and third opinion before he "helps" them die.
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