1 00:02:50,704 --> 00:02:55,640 You know, she had that same look of agony on her face. 2 00:02:55,724 --> 00:02:57,272 Just like mother. 3 00:02:57,355 --> 00:02:59,321 The same one mother had, you know? 4 00:02:59,405 --> 00:03:01,831 - Yeah. - You bore witness to it. 5 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:04,586 Excruciating. 6 00:03:04,669 --> 00:03:07,799 - Awful waiting. - She was struggling to die. 7 00:03:07,882 --> 00:03:11,387 Yeah, well, it's not living, you know. 8 00:03:11,471 --> 00:03:15,226 - No. - It's not being alive. 9 00:03:15,310 --> 00:03:18,856 You know, they started doing this in Europe already... 10 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:20,693 but not here. 11 00:03:20,776 --> 00:03:22,612 - Really? - Yeah. 12 00:03:22,695 --> 00:03:25,783 - Holland. - Holland. 13 00:03:25,867 --> 00:03:27,411 Never here. 14 00:03:27,494 --> 00:03:30,290 Way too puritanical here. 15 00:03:30,373 --> 00:03:33,086 I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. 16 00:03:33,169 --> 00:03:34,796 I was limiting myself. 17 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,010 It'll be your own field of specialty, Jack. 18 00:03:38,093 --> 00:03:40,972 You're going to need some business cards, you know? 19 00:03:53,324 --> 00:03:55,619 We'll be swinging singles again. 20 00:03:55,702 --> 00:03:57,622 Just like when we were in our prime. 21 00:03:57,705 --> 00:03:59,958 Remember those two nurses we were dating? 22 00:04:00,042 --> 00:04:02,879 Two nurses? 23 00:04:02,963 --> 00:04:05,925 Oh, that was me, not you. Scratch that. 24 00:04:06,009 --> 00:04:07,219 You know, you could grab a box, Jack. 25 00:04:07,302 --> 00:04:09,097 - It wouldn't hurt you. - Well, I'll get the door... 26 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:11,976 Then I'll come back out. 27 00:04:13,228 --> 00:04:17,317 Hey, the best thing about living in my storage room? Ain't bad. 28 00:04:17,401 --> 00:04:19,362 It's a short commute. 29 00:04:19,445 --> 00:04:21,699 Ain't bad. 30 00:04:41,352 --> 00:04:43,606 You left your varsity jacket, your grandmother's afghan... 31 00:04:43,689 --> 00:04:44,732 and your nose hair clippers. 32 00:04:44,816 --> 00:04:48,029 That's the last time I'm cleaning up after you, Neal Nicol. 33 00:04:48,112 --> 00:04:50,616 Hi, Jack. 34 00:04:53,662 --> 00:04:56,708 I remember her being much happier at your wedding. 35 00:04:56,792 --> 00:04:58,836 Cut. 36 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,839 - Ante up. - Yes, dear. 37 00:05:00,923 --> 00:05:02,967 I'm in. 38 00:05:03,051 --> 00:05:05,554 Oh, by the way, Neal, mazel tov. 39 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:07,891 You're going to be an ex here soon. How's it feel? 40 00:05:07,975 --> 00:05:11,605 Like losing 138 pounds without having to diet. 41 00:05:14,317 --> 00:05:17,614 Obitiatry, Stan. The doctoring of death. 42 00:05:17,697 --> 00:05:19,241 What, in suicide clinics? 43 00:05:19,325 --> 00:05:22,997 Really? I'm a doctor. You want me exiled to Boca Raton? Here. 44 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,502 Planned death is gaining acceptance all over the world. Why not here? 45 00:05:26,585 --> 00:05:28,588 Can we, for Christ's sakes, just play cards, please? 46 00:05:28,672 --> 00:05:31,467 Because you can't put those decisions in the hands of patients, Jack. 47 00:05:31,551 --> 00:05:32,719 Whose hands are we going put them in? 48 00:05:32,803 --> 00:05:34,388 Doctoring is a healing profession. I can't even... 49 00:05:34,472 --> 00:05:39,062 Doctoring is a death profession too. Medicine. Medicide. 50 00:05:39,145 --> 00:05:40,940 - Cards, Stan? - Three. 51 00:05:41,023 --> 00:05:44,069 That's 10 in a row. That's 10 in a row he folds. 52 00:05:44,153 --> 00:05:46,114 You know you're allowed to bluff once in a while. 53 00:05:46,197 --> 00:05:47,407 I don't bluff. 54 00:05:47,491 --> 00:05:49,369 The guy is a study in pure non-fiction. 55 00:05:49,452 --> 00:05:51,914 - Let him alone. - Yeah. 56 00:05:51,997 --> 00:05:53,041 You know I love you, Jack... 57 00:05:53,124 --> 00:05:55,085 but most of your colleagues think you're a nut. 58 00:05:55,169 --> 00:05:57,422 Remember they used to call you the "screwball pathologist"? 59 00:05:57,506 --> 00:06:00,635 Would you save me the schpilkas and stay retired for crying out loud? 60 00:06:00,719 --> 00:06:02,304 I'm not retired. 61 00:06:02,388 --> 00:06:05,893 Retired means one is no longer occupied with one's profession. 62 00:06:05,976 --> 00:06:09,231 I may be unemployed, but I am occupied. 63 00:06:09,314 --> 00:06:12,694 - Eight. - King high. It's yours. 64 00:06:14,155 --> 00:06:17,410 - And it's your deal. - I know it. 65 00:06:17,493 --> 00:06:19,079 - What? - My hands are greasy. 66 00:06:19,162 --> 00:06:22,793 - With what? - I have pizza fingers. 67 00:06:22,876 --> 00:06:25,213 - Pizza fingers? - I've got athlete's foot. 68 00:06:25,296 --> 00:06:27,800 "At the Oak Hill Care Center in Farmington Hills... 69 00:06:27,883 --> 00:06:30,888 where David Rivlin, a 38-year old quadriplegic... 70 00:06:30,971 --> 00:06:33,099 who's been confined here for three years... 71 00:06:33,183 --> 00:06:35,728 has asked to be taken off of life support. 72 00:06:35,812 --> 00:06:39,150 The Michigan Courts have yet to make a decision. 73 00:06:39,233 --> 00:06:41,946 Mr. Rivlin, who sustained a spinal cord injury... 74 00:06:42,029 --> 00:06:45,242 during a body-surfing accident almost 20 years ago... 75 00:06:45,326 --> 00:06:47,245 tried desperately to live on his own... 76 00:06:47,328 --> 00:06:50,750 until the cost of live in aides became too much for him. 77 00:06:50,834 --> 00:06:53,504 The state would only offer Rivlin..." 78 00:07:08,192 --> 00:07:09,903 - Yeah? - "Turn on channel 7." 79 00:07:09,987 --> 00:07:12,240 No, I'm watching Sylvester. 80 00:07:12,323 --> 00:07:14,452 - It's the one where he chases the frog. - "Hurry up." 81 00:07:14,535 --> 00:07:15,619 "Do it now." 82 00:07:15,702 --> 00:07:16,744 Why? 83 00:07:16,827 --> 00:07:21,954 You see this man? He's being kept alive against his wishes. 84 00:07:23,747 --> 00:07:26,498 Oh, yeah. Oh, Margo. 85 00:07:26,581 --> 00:07:29,665 - Margo. - Yeah? 86 00:07:29,749 --> 00:07:32,750 Look what we got here. 87 00:07:32,833 --> 00:07:35,251 A veritable gold mine. Here, look. 88 00:07:35,334 --> 00:07:37,460 - Excuse me, I'm sorry. - That's all right. 89 00:07:37,543 --> 00:07:40,794 It's a veritable plethora. 90 00:07:40,878 --> 00:07:43,712 - Look at all this stuff. - Yeah, it's real metal. 91 00:07:43,795 --> 00:07:44,879 - These things too? - Margo. 92 00:07:44,962 --> 00:07:46,546 What does this have to do with Mr. Rivlin? 93 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:48,047 - What is that? All right. - Okay? 94 00:07:48,130 --> 00:07:50,006 - That's a motor. - Whatever. 95 00:07:50,089 --> 00:07:51,423 - What else? - I think... 96 00:07:51,506 --> 00:07:53,841 - You want those bolts? - Let's take... 97 00:07:53,924 --> 00:07:56,508 - the whole shebang. If it's cheap... - Okay, is this it? 98 00:07:56,592 --> 00:07:59,009 I'll give you the whole thing for 15 dollars. 99 00:07:59,092 --> 00:08:01,343 How's about 10 dollars? 100 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,804 You know... 101 00:08:08,888 --> 00:08:12,097 this is what you do it for. 102 00:08:12,180 --> 00:08:14,473 To be able to put your stamp on medical history. 103 00:08:14,556 --> 00:08:17,557 A word to the wise. Be careful where you're stamping. 104 00:08:17,641 --> 00:08:19,850 That shit'll kill you. 105 00:08:22,059 --> 00:08:24,226 Thanks, Neal. 106 00:08:32,062 --> 00:08:35,189 Groundbreaking. Today we have some... 107 00:08:35,272 --> 00:08:39,690 What we're doing here today is groundbreaking. 108 00:08:39,774 --> 00:08:42,108 It will... 109 00:08:42,191 --> 00:08:43,817 You know a better word for "groundbreaking"? 110 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:46,109 Why don't you try to relax, Jack? 111 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:50,319 I mean, he asked to see you, so you could make him understand. 112 00:08:50,402 --> 00:08:53,195 - Oh, for God's sakes. - It's just a demonstration. 113 00:08:53,278 --> 00:08:55,654 So I should go in there and not say anything, baby? 114 00:08:55,738 --> 00:08:56,946 - Is that better? - I didn't say that. 115 00:08:57,030 --> 00:08:59,947 Just stand there, look at him and do a mime show? 116 00:09:00,031 --> 00:09:04,282 He wants to understand how you're going to help him end his life. 117 00:09:04,366 --> 00:09:06,033 I know why we're going to see him, Margo. 118 00:09:06,116 --> 00:09:10,576 I'm asking if you know another word for "groundbreaking". 119 00:09:10,659 --> 00:09:11,993 So, I'm hearing different things. 120 00:09:12,077 --> 00:09:14,036 I have a source that says the Oakland County Prosecutor... 121 00:09:14,119 --> 00:09:16,203 - Is going to intervene. - Seriously Mr. Lessenberry... 122 00:09:16,286 --> 00:09:18,287 they do not pay me nearly enough money... 123 00:09:18,371 --> 00:09:20,163 to comment on local politics. 124 00:09:20,246 --> 00:09:22,497 I understand that. I'm not asking you to comment on politics. 125 00:09:22,580 --> 00:09:25,748 I'm asking you if you've had any communication... 126 00:09:25,832 --> 00:09:27,290 with the prosecutor's office. 127 00:09:27,374 --> 00:09:30,958 We are a hospital. We provide medical care. 128 00:09:32,167 --> 00:09:35,126 My mercitron machine, David. 129 00:09:35,210 --> 00:09:38,169 I built it just for you. 130 00:09:41,004 --> 00:09:43,213 You see... 131 00:09:44,296 --> 00:09:47,548 We have a monumental opportunity here, David... 132 00:09:47,631 --> 00:09:50,799 To not only... 133 00:09:50,882 --> 00:09:53,341 end your own suffering... 134 00:09:53,425 --> 00:09:56,176 but to give your death a meaning. 135 00:09:56,259 --> 00:09:59,802 By providing your organs to more useful citizens... 136 00:09:59,885 --> 00:10:05,054 you will be benefitting society immeasurably. 137 00:10:05,137 --> 00:10:07,013 Just so you know... 138 00:10:07,096 --> 00:10:12,390 we're going to offer them up on a first come, first serve basis. 139 00:10:14,849 --> 00:10:16,766 Now... 140 00:10:17,975 --> 00:10:20,518 I don't know if you know this, but I cannot give you... 141 00:10:20,601 --> 00:10:22,560 the injection myself. 142 00:10:22,643 --> 00:10:24,311 It's illegal. 143 00:10:24,394 --> 00:10:28,395 But you can release these solutions... 144 00:10:28,479 --> 00:10:30,604 on your own. 145 00:10:31,813 --> 00:10:37,565 The saline drip is going to activate the thiopental. 146 00:10:37,649 --> 00:10:40,108 It's going to put you to sleep. 147 00:10:40,191 --> 00:10:44,026 Set off this timer. 148 00:10:44,109 --> 00:10:47,485 You'll fall into a deep coma... 149 00:10:47,569 --> 00:10:51,070 as the lethal dose of potassium chloride... 150 00:10:51,153 --> 00:10:54,571 stops your heart. 151 00:10:54,655 --> 00:10:58,031 I know you have no motor skills... 152 00:10:58,114 --> 00:11:01,615 so I added this. 153 00:11:03,491 --> 00:11:05,575 You can move you head slightly side to side. 154 00:11:05,659 --> 00:11:08,201 Don't do it now, but I'm going to place this... 155 00:11:08,285 --> 00:11:11,702 between your teeth. 156 00:11:11,786 --> 00:11:14,203 Put it in and move your head. 157 00:11:14,287 --> 00:11:17,079 Very simple, move your head side to side... 158 00:11:17,163 --> 00:11:19,872 just a little bit and it goes. 159 00:11:19,955 --> 00:11:25,582 The time comes, you just let your teeth do all the work. 160 00:11:25,666 --> 00:11:26,791 This is outrageous. 161 00:11:26,874 --> 00:11:28,333 - No it's not. - Get that thing out of here now. 162 00:11:28,417 --> 00:11:30,918 He's just receiving new information... 163 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:34,377 so he's bound to react. Just give him a chance to calm himself. 164 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:35,961 Could you just give him a chance to calm himself? 165 00:11:36,044 --> 00:11:38,629 Please leave immediately of I'll call security... 166 00:11:38,712 --> 00:11:40,504 and have you thrown out. 167 00:11:40,588 --> 00:11:43,297 - Please leave. - I'm sorry, David. 168 00:11:43,380 --> 00:11:45,714 I don't need your security. 169 00:11:45,798 --> 00:11:47,632 - Certainly don't need that. - Get it out of here. 170 00:11:47,715 --> 00:11:49,841 David, I'm sorry for this upset. 171 00:11:49,924 --> 00:11:51,925 Doctor, please. 172 00:11:52,008 --> 00:11:55,009 - I'm sorry. - And take that thing with you. 173 00:12:01,678 --> 00:12:02,720 It took a couple more months... 174 00:12:02,804 --> 00:12:06,180 but the doctors finally did allow him to be taken off of life support. 175 00:12:06,263 --> 00:12:07,931 And what a brutal way he went. 176 00:12:08,014 --> 00:12:11,557 - Brutal? - Brutal. Think about it. 177 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,933 Is it really any different than what the Germans did? Nazi Germany? 178 00:12:16,434 --> 00:12:19,226 - Want me to print that? - Print what you want. 179 00:12:19,310 --> 00:12:20,894 We're talking about hospitals... 180 00:12:20,977 --> 00:12:22,477 - Not Nazis. - Well, they do the same thing... 181 00:12:22,561 --> 00:12:24,603 starving people to death. They cut off their feeding... 182 00:12:24,687 --> 00:12:26,646 and their water and they let them die. 183 00:12:26,729 --> 00:12:28,563 And it's all legal. 184 00:12:28,646 --> 00:12:31,356 The United States Supreme Court has validated... 185 00:12:31,439 --> 00:12:34,648 The Nazi method of execution. 186 00:12:34,732 --> 00:12:38,150 Excuse me. You obviously don't approve of the current method. 187 00:12:38,233 --> 00:12:39,942 No, I don't. Do you? 188 00:12:40,025 --> 00:12:43,068 Starving people to death? No, I don't think so. 189 00:12:43,151 --> 00:12:45,027 It's inhumane. 190 00:12:45,111 --> 00:12:46,861 If a person's allowed to die... 191 00:12:46,944 --> 00:12:50,237 Then you inject them painlessly, quickly. 192 00:12:50,321 --> 00:12:52,321 You don't let them wither away. 193 00:12:52,405 --> 00:12:56,740 It's inconceivable. It's unspeakable. 194 00:12:56,823 --> 00:12:59,532 What would you charge for this procedure? 195 00:13:02,908 --> 00:13:04,284 You don't charge people... 196 00:13:04,367 --> 00:13:07,410 for something like this, Mr. Lessenberry. 197 00:13:07,493 --> 00:13:10,119 What's wrong with you? 198 00:13:11,370 --> 00:13:13,371 You've really got some story here, doc. 199 00:13:13,454 --> 00:13:16,580 Don't be surprised if this gets picked up nationally. 200 00:13:16,663 --> 00:13:19,331 Is your turkey okay? 201 00:13:19,414 --> 00:13:21,748 I don't like fat. 202 00:13:29,876 --> 00:13:31,794 Selfish bastard. 203 00:13:31,877 --> 00:13:35,712 You hog all the ink in the Dee-troit papers. 204 00:13:35,795 --> 00:13:39,546 Now you're in "Newsweek" and there's nothing about me. 205 00:13:39,630 --> 00:13:41,130 What about me? 206 00:13:41,214 --> 00:13:43,673 Look at this. Man. 207 00:13:43,756 --> 00:13:46,049 "Blunt and feisty, he's the first American doctor... 208 00:13:46,132 --> 00:13:48,675 to advocate physician-assisted suicide." 209 00:13:48,758 --> 00:13:50,550 They're going to have to take me seriously now. 210 00:13:50,634 --> 00:13:52,926 - You're not a local quack anymore. - No. 211 00:13:53,010 --> 00:13:56,302 - You're America's quack. - America's quack! 212 00:13:56,386 --> 00:13:59,762 - Look at this. - You earned it. 213 00:13:59,845 --> 00:14:01,846 Congratulations. 214 00:14:01,929 --> 00:14:05,597 - Neal, congratulations. - "Newsweek" magazine. 215 00:14:05,681 --> 00:14:08,723 So, how are we going to celebrate? 216 00:14:09,891 --> 00:14:11,349 You want a glass of water? 217 00:14:11,433 --> 00:14:14,059 - Yeah, that'd be great. - Great! 218 00:14:28,647 --> 00:14:32,399 "So, when were you first diagnosed with alzheimer's, Mrs. Adkins?" 219 00:14:32,482 --> 00:14:35,525 "About a year ago I think." 220 00:14:35,608 --> 00:14:39,490 "It was three years ago now." 221 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,123 "And what did your doctor say when he told you?" 222 00:14:44,207 --> 00:14:46,419 "Well, it was like a bomb. 223 00:14:46,503 --> 00:14:50,217 He said she had alzheimer's and... 224 00:14:50,301 --> 00:14:53,849 it'd come to a point where she wouldn't be able to... 225 00:14:56,145 --> 00:14:58,816 It was... dress herself. 226 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:01,070 She wouldn't be able to take a bath." 227 00:15:01,154 --> 00:15:04,326 "What are some of the other fears you have?" 228 00:15:05,996 --> 00:15:13,509 "That I wouldn't know that this is my husband and my children. 229 00:15:13,593 --> 00:15:16,389 Or, who am I?" 230 00:15:16,473 --> 00:15:19,186 "You're sensing the loss of things." 231 00:15:19,270 --> 00:15:22,484 "Loss." 232 00:15:22,567 --> 00:15:25,698 "So, let's talk about that if you could. 233 00:15:27,701 --> 00:15:29,538 What happened today, for instance?" 234 00:15:29,621 --> 00:15:31,124 - "What happened today?" - "You tell him. 235 00:15:31,208 --> 00:15:32,752 I don't even know what happened today." 236 00:15:32,835 --> 00:15:37,594 "She went out into the yard and then... 237 00:15:38,763 --> 00:15:40,766 What I could see was... 238 00:15:40,850 --> 00:15:43,813 she stood there in the yard... 239 00:15:43,897 --> 00:15:46,986 and I could see from behind her... 240 00:15:47,069 --> 00:15:50,242 that she didn't know where she was. 241 00:15:50,325 --> 00:15:54,791 She didn't know to turn around, and that was the backdoor of the house. 242 00:15:54,875 --> 00:15:58,047 And she didn't know that that was the gate to go out to the street. 243 00:15:58,131 --> 00:16:01,887 She just... she didn't know what to do." 244 00:16:03,098 --> 00:16:04,851 "I don't remember." 245 00:16:04,935 --> 00:16:06,980 "When I talked to your doctor, he... 246 00:16:07,063 --> 00:16:08,733 First of all, he would hardly speak with me. 247 00:16:08,817 --> 00:16:10,152 But when he did... 248 00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:12,072 what your doctor was trying to communicate to me... 249 00:16:12,156 --> 00:16:14,744 is that you're not imminently terminal. 250 00:16:14,827 --> 00:16:15,871 Do you understand?" 251 00:16:15,954 --> 00:16:18,668 "Yes, I understand. And I understand that..." 252 00:16:18,751 --> 00:16:21,673 Should I make some tea for us? Jack? 253 00:16:21,756 --> 00:16:24,094 "That is frightening." 254 00:16:24,177 --> 00:16:27,558 Jack, do you want some tea? 255 00:16:28,894 --> 00:16:32,442 Margo, I don't know what we're doing. 256 00:16:32,526 --> 00:16:35,406 - Look at her. - "We're in this together." 257 00:16:35,489 --> 00:16:37,075 "That's her decision." 258 00:16:37,159 --> 00:16:39,914 - She looks well to me. - "I will not be put..." 259 00:16:39,997 --> 00:16:43,879 She looks quite capable, no? 260 00:16:43,963 --> 00:16:46,259 She's not the right one. 261 00:16:46,342 --> 00:16:48,972 But she has the right. 262 00:16:49,055 --> 00:16:51,685 As a patient, it's her choice. 263 00:16:51,768 --> 00:16:53,772 "I refuse to die a slow death." 264 00:16:53,856 --> 00:16:54,899 Come on, Jack. 265 00:16:54,983 --> 00:16:56,235 You know how things are going to be perceived. 266 00:16:56,318 --> 00:16:58,656 - I don't care. - The media's going to all over it. 267 00:16:58,739 --> 00:17:00,701 You're going to have to tell her yes. 268 00:17:00,785 --> 00:17:02,246 - I know. - You have to be strategic. 269 00:17:02,329 --> 00:17:04,792 Margo, what do we care about the media? 270 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:07,421 Who cares? 271 00:17:07,505 --> 00:17:09,342 Look. Sometimes in life... 272 00:17:09,425 --> 00:17:11,679 there are strategies that you have to take... 273 00:17:11,763 --> 00:17:14,517 because we have to be very careful about our purpose. 274 00:17:14,601 --> 00:17:17,231 - Our purpose is important. - Well, what about her? 275 00:17:17,314 --> 00:17:18,859 Who cares what people think? 276 00:17:18,942 --> 00:17:22,615 It's what my patient feels. 277 00:17:22,699 --> 00:17:26,247 She doesn't know each day what she's going to find... 278 00:17:26,330 --> 00:17:27,457 when she looks in the mirror. 279 00:17:27,541 --> 00:17:30,755 She doesn't know if she's going to see herself there anymore. 280 00:17:30,838 --> 00:17:32,884 This is her terror. 281 00:17:32,967 --> 00:17:35,806 This is what she goes through, day in and day out. 282 00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:39,771 The terror of being... 283 00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:43,528 Lost. 284 00:17:45,490 --> 00:17:47,869 - Jack. - She's running out of time. 285 00:17:47,952 --> 00:17:50,123 I understand that. 286 00:17:51,793 --> 00:17:54,589 Look at me. 287 00:17:54,673 --> 00:17:56,760 If it was me, if I was her... 288 00:17:56,843 --> 00:17:59,348 if I was in the same situation, would you do it? 289 00:17:59,431 --> 00:18:01,310 - You, Margo? - Yes, me, Margo. 290 00:18:01,393 --> 00:18:02,896 - Would you do it for me? - Of course I'd do it. Yes. 291 00:18:02,979 --> 00:18:05,484 - You would do it? You know that? - Sure. 292 00:18:05,567 --> 00:18:08,573 If I saw the same look of determination in your eyes... 293 00:18:08,656 --> 00:18:12,705 as I saw in hers, of course I'd do it. 294 00:18:12,788 --> 00:18:17,213 No question about it. My own sister, in truth, I'd do it. 295 00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:19,843 You'd do it? 296 00:18:19,926 --> 00:18:23,808 - That's your answer. - Yeah, I know. 297 00:18:23,892 --> 00:18:25,770 I just wanted to work this through, you know? 298 00:18:25,854 --> 00:18:29,402 Just go through the variables. 299 00:18:32,699 --> 00:18:35,496 Let them come after me. 300 00:18:35,579 --> 00:18:38,501 Let them come after a real physician. 301 00:18:40,380 --> 00:18:44,512 I think I'm going to make us some tea right now. 302 00:18:44,595 --> 00:18:46,098 Make it strong, will you? 303 00:18:46,182 --> 00:18:47,559 Yeah. 304 00:18:47,643 --> 00:18:50,189 - "The word for 'the end of life'." - "Death." 305 00:18:50,272 --> 00:18:51,984 By the way... 306 00:18:52,067 --> 00:18:54,906 - "This is what you wish?" - "Yes." 307 00:18:54,989 --> 00:18:58,245 - Where are we going to do this? - "Yes, I do." 308 00:18:58,328 --> 00:19:01,125 Some people think we brew up poisonous potions... 309 00:19:01,209 --> 00:19:03,003 like witches from gallows hill. 310 00:19:03,087 --> 00:19:04,882 Others think it's take two hemlock pills... 311 00:19:04,965 --> 00:19:07,178 meet your maker in the morning. 312 00:19:07,261 --> 00:19:11,602 Surprise, there's no such thing as a hemlock pill. 313 00:19:11,686 --> 00:19:14,607 We offer assistance... 314 00:19:14,691 --> 00:19:18,656 and advanced directives, DNR's, do not resuscitate... 315 00:19:18,740 --> 00:19:21,954 wills, hospice care... 316 00:19:22,037 --> 00:19:26,295 but we do not dispense drugs. We do not pull plugs. 317 00:19:26,379 --> 00:19:28,758 We started this chapter because we believe... 318 00:19:28,841 --> 00:19:33,349 that to each person, their own way of death. 319 00:19:33,433 --> 00:19:35,812 With dignity. 320 00:19:35,896 --> 00:19:39,235 Miss Good. I can carry that for you. 321 00:19:39,318 --> 00:19:41,322 That would've been nice, Dr. Kevorkian... 322 00:19:41,405 --> 00:19:43,200 but it's a little late now, don't you think? 323 00:19:43,284 --> 00:19:45,872 And it's Missus. 324 00:19:45,955 --> 00:19:48,042 - Missus? - Yup. 325 00:19:48,126 --> 00:19:49,795 Good. 326 00:19:49,879 --> 00:19:51,924 So, you know who I am? 327 00:19:52,008 --> 00:19:54,262 What do I look like, June Cleaver? 328 00:19:54,345 --> 00:19:56,850 What can I do for you? 329 00:19:56,933 --> 00:20:00,147 Well... I... 330 00:20:00,231 --> 00:20:02,694 I have my first patient. 331 00:20:02,777 --> 00:20:05,407 - But what I don't have... - Is a place. 332 00:20:05,490 --> 00:20:07,369 Yes. 333 00:20:07,452 --> 00:20:10,666 And you'd like to use my home? 334 00:20:10,750 --> 00:20:13,922 Well, no. I thought you would know a place... 335 00:20:14,005 --> 00:20:18,388 but if I could use your home, that would be just fine. Sure. 336 00:20:18,472 --> 00:20:19,557 Well, if you're going to come to my home... 337 00:20:19,641 --> 00:20:22,646 You're going to have to dress more cheerfully. 338 00:20:31,787 --> 00:20:33,833 If you've never actually tested that before... 339 00:20:33,916 --> 00:20:36,045 how do you know it's going to work? 340 00:20:36,128 --> 00:20:38,633 Because I made it. 341 00:20:38,716 --> 00:20:42,849 I wish you had a stronger argument than that. 342 00:20:42,932 --> 00:20:47,106 Hey, whatever I can do to lend a hand tomorrow, let me know. 343 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:52,157 On this one, Neal, this first one. 344 00:20:52,241 --> 00:20:54,119 I want it to be me and Margo. 345 00:20:54,202 --> 00:20:56,749 Just us. 346 00:21:03,135 --> 00:21:07,226 Am I hearing a phone or is it my... 347 00:21:09,522 --> 00:21:13,153 I've got to remember to install one by the couch. 348 00:21:13,237 --> 00:21:15,198 Your house. 349 00:21:15,282 --> 00:21:18,913 Dr. Kevorkian's. This is Debby. 350 00:21:18,997 --> 00:21:20,792 Oh, hang on, Miss Good. 351 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:24,256 Janet good. 352 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:26,761 - Oh, there we go. - Hey, Janet. 353 00:21:26,844 --> 00:21:28,597 "I don't know how to say this, so I'm just going to say it. 354 00:21:28,681 --> 00:21:31,478 I'm sorry, I know it's the last minute..." 355 00:21:31,561 --> 00:21:35,777 but my husband, Ray, he's a retired police captain... 356 00:21:35,860 --> 00:21:38,407 and he feels very strongly... 357 00:21:38,490 --> 00:21:40,368 that we can't use our house. 358 00:21:40,452 --> 00:21:42,289 He feels that it would put us at risk. 359 00:21:42,372 --> 00:21:44,334 "Lady, are you kidding me?" 360 00:21:44,417 --> 00:21:48,132 I've got Margo at the airport, picking these people up as we speak. 361 00:21:48,216 --> 00:21:49,927 "You can't do this to me." 362 00:21:50,011 --> 00:21:53,058 Yeah, well, I could make some other suggestions. 363 00:21:53,141 --> 00:21:57,232 There's nothing further to be gained by talking to you. 364 00:22:00,237 --> 00:22:02,491 What now? 365 00:22:05,705 --> 00:22:08,419 Call the whole thing off? 366 00:22:10,547 --> 00:22:13,052 Although... 367 00:22:25,324 --> 00:22:27,536 Okay. 368 00:22:32,879 --> 00:22:36,970 I hope she like parks and Volkswagens. 369 00:22:38,180 --> 00:22:41,687 Jack's made all the arrangements. 370 00:22:41,770 --> 00:22:42,814 Good. 371 00:22:42,897 --> 00:22:49,367 Margo's going to take me to the airport shortly. 372 00:22:49,450 --> 00:22:53,249 It's best for me to go home. 373 00:22:53,332 --> 00:22:58,467 Should anything happen with the police later on. 374 00:22:58,550 --> 00:23:00,387 Yes. 375 00:23:46,386 --> 00:23:49,099 Okay. 376 00:23:54,734 --> 00:23:58,111 Our gardener comes on Thursday. 377 00:23:59,278 --> 00:24:02,488 He's going to plant marigolds. 378 00:24:04,239 --> 00:24:08,574 Marigolds protect the garden. 379 00:24:11,284 --> 00:24:14,911 It's not too late, my dear. You know? 380 00:24:14,994 --> 00:24:17,329 We can stop right now. 381 00:24:17,412 --> 00:24:20,664 You wouldn't offend me. 382 00:24:20,747 --> 00:24:24,833 Do you understand? You wouldn't offend me. 383 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:36,047 Tell me when to flip the switch. 384 00:24:48,678 --> 00:24:51,013 Whenever you're... 385 00:25:16,735 --> 00:25:20,486 Thank you. 386 00:25:52,711 --> 00:25:55,713 When a patient in agony dies... 387 00:25:55,796 --> 00:25:59,465 then a doctor's true calling implies. 388 00:25:59,548 --> 00:26:03,884 One should do what is best, at the patient's request... 389 00:26:03,967 --> 00:26:09,303 for humane, quick and painless demise. 390 00:26:35,483 --> 00:26:39,652 - I told you they couldn't keep me. - Come in. 391 00:26:39,736 --> 00:26:41,028 They've got nothing to charge me on. 392 00:26:41,111 --> 00:26:43,988 All right. 393 00:26:44,071 --> 00:26:46,281 Has he no regard for the sanctity of life? 394 00:26:46,364 --> 00:26:49,241 How dare he call himself a doctor? 395 00:26:49,324 --> 00:26:50,366 What can we charge him with? 396 00:26:50,449 --> 00:26:53,618 The medical examiner said he had no choice but to rule it a suicide. 397 00:26:53,701 --> 00:26:56,828 I just can't stop thinking about yesterday. 398 00:26:56,911 --> 00:27:00,079 How it all went. 399 00:27:00,163 --> 00:27:05,040 I guess somehow I just thought the whole thing would be nicer. 400 00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:06,666 Could be nicer? 401 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:09,334 - Yeah. - How "nicer"? 402 00:27:09,418 --> 00:27:12,377 Does this look like compassion to you, David? 403 00:27:12,461 --> 00:27:14,212 Compassion? 404 00:27:14,295 --> 00:27:17,880 He kills a woman and he calls it compassion? 405 00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:22,799 If this guy Thompson wants to arrest me... 406 00:27:22,883 --> 00:27:25,426 let him arrest me. I don't care. 407 00:27:25,509 --> 00:27:28,010 I'm not a busy man, you know. 408 00:27:28,094 --> 00:27:30,053 We have to get you a lawyer. 409 00:27:30,137 --> 00:27:32,096 I don't want a lawyer. 410 00:27:32,179 --> 00:27:35,348 Jack, they're threatening to bring you up on murder charges. 411 00:27:35,431 --> 00:27:39,016 - You need a lawyer. - I don't know any lawyers. 412 00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:42,893 There's this one guy I see on TV all the time. 413 00:27:42,977 --> 00:27:45,478 You're going to get him. 414 00:27:45,561 --> 00:27:49,688 He does these medical malpractice commercials. 415 00:27:49,772 --> 00:27:52,565 Is that a new wig? 416 00:27:52,648 --> 00:27:54,107 Yes. 417 00:27:54,191 --> 00:27:55,691 Why? It's rum raisin. 418 00:27:55,775 --> 00:28:00,194 I think it makes me look a little more fetching. 419 00:28:01,278 --> 00:28:04,363 What do you think? Is that silly? 420 00:28:04,446 --> 00:28:06,113 I don't know. 421 00:28:06,197 --> 00:28:10,241 I don't understand wigs, but that's just me. 422 00:28:10,324 --> 00:28:12,617 One day, you know, I'm going to turn around... 423 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:16,494 Girls, I don't think the good doctor sways to fancy. 424 00:28:16,577 --> 00:28:19,120 Hide the Perrier. 425 00:28:20,663 --> 00:28:22,955 This way. 426 00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:26,499 How good can this guy be if there's no elevators? 427 00:28:26,582 --> 00:28:28,792 Let me tell you something about Dick Thompson. 428 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:31,251 He may be a card-carrying member of the religious right... 429 00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:35,087 but he doesn't have a pot to piss in, charging Jack with murder. 430 00:28:35,170 --> 00:28:37,046 He didn't kill anyone. 431 00:28:37,129 --> 00:28:40,131 "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege." 432 00:28:40,214 --> 00:28:43,216 - No crime... - No punishment without law. 433 00:28:43,299 --> 00:28:46,176 - Yeah. - The man knows his Latin. 434 00:28:46,259 --> 00:28:48,719 I also know McNally, the District Judge... 435 00:28:48,802 --> 00:28:51,387 and no way in hell is he going to let this move forward. 436 00:28:51,470 --> 00:28:52,888 But understand, these extremists will do... 437 00:28:52,971 --> 00:28:55,722 everything under the sun to stop you from doing this again. 438 00:28:55,806 --> 00:28:57,890 They have no recourse to stop me. 439 00:28:57,973 --> 00:29:02,976 Did you videotape your conversations with Janet Adkins? 440 00:29:03,059 --> 00:29:04,894 - Yeah. - Yes, I did. 441 00:29:04,977 --> 00:29:06,645 - Why? - Good. 442 00:29:06,728 --> 00:29:10,313 Well, you see, courtrooms are theaters of conscience. 443 00:29:10,397 --> 00:29:13,440 If we show your patients pleading for your help... 444 00:29:13,523 --> 00:29:17,400 if we lay out the gut-wrenching emotions of it all... 445 00:29:17,484 --> 00:29:20,027 that's your golden ticket. 446 00:29:20,110 --> 00:29:22,778 No jury will convict you with me at your side. 447 00:29:22,861 --> 00:29:25,863 I simply do not lose. 448 00:29:25,946 --> 00:29:28,739 He's a wolverine. 449 00:29:28,823 --> 00:29:30,407 Wolverine. 450 00:29:30,490 --> 00:29:32,825 Yeah, I was a theater major. 451 00:29:32,908 --> 00:29:37,244 I did an unforgettable Giles Corey in "The Crucible" senior year. 452 00:29:37,327 --> 00:29:39,453 My mother still has the reviews in her pocket. 453 00:29:39,537 --> 00:29:41,121 - Really? - Yeah. 454 00:29:41,204 --> 00:29:43,539 - I can't afford to pay you. - Oh, you don't have to pay me. 455 00:29:43,622 --> 00:29:44,998 I'll do it for free. 456 00:29:45,081 --> 00:29:47,416 Let them keep trying to prove this is a crime... 457 00:29:47,499 --> 00:29:51,960 and we'll keep proving it's a civil rights issue. 458 00:29:52,043 --> 00:29:53,794 So, what do you think? 459 00:29:53,877 --> 00:29:56,253 She's a good judge of character. 460 00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:59,589 That's a wig she's wearing. 461 00:30:01,423 --> 00:30:02,673 Rum raisin. 462 00:30:02,757 --> 00:30:06,384 - Jack. - I like it. 463 00:30:06,467 --> 00:30:10,553 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 464 00:30:10,636 --> 00:30:12,595 "The Morning Drive Show"? 465 00:30:12,679 --> 00:30:15,555 "Yeah, he wanted me to ask you if you'd come on as a guest." 466 00:30:15,638 --> 00:30:18,598 It's on 6:00 to 10:00 in the morning. It's got a big audience. 467 00:30:18,682 --> 00:30:20,349 You know, people driving to work listen to it. 468 00:30:20,433 --> 00:30:22,475 He keeps it pretty light. 469 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:24,852 He might let you pick a record. 470 00:30:24,935 --> 00:30:29,229 Well, I never heard of it, but I'll do it, sure. 471 00:30:32,606 --> 00:30:33,648 Good morning, everybody. 472 00:30:33,731 --> 00:30:35,899 This is The Bob Bender Show, "The Morning Drive Show". 473 00:30:35,982 --> 00:30:37,858 Today it's a special edition. 474 00:30:37,942 --> 00:30:39,484 It's The Morning Die Show... 475 00:30:39,567 --> 00:30:42,444 because of my special guest, Dr. Jack Kevorkian. 476 00:30:42,527 --> 00:30:44,612 He's a local boy from here in Detroit. 477 00:30:44,695 --> 00:30:47,405 You might know him better as Dr. Death. 478 00:30:47,488 --> 00:30:50,865 I like to say he is the last doctor you will ever need. 479 00:30:50,948 --> 00:30:52,449 I actually heard somebody refer to you... 480 00:30:52,532 --> 00:30:53,950 as Dr. Frankenstein the other day... 481 00:30:54,033 --> 00:30:58,119 because of your rather active organ procurement program. 482 00:30:58,202 --> 00:31:00,286 Well, I'm going to take that as a compliment... 483 00:31:00,370 --> 00:31:03,246 because anyone who's read the story of Frankenstein... 484 00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:07,749 knows that he was a benevolent man... 485 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:11,209 and it was society who made the monster bad. 486 00:31:11,292 --> 00:31:13,502 Well, I find it impossible to believe... 487 00:31:13,585 --> 00:31:16,086 but our lines are lighting up and my producer tells me... 488 00:31:16,170 --> 00:31:19,380 40-50 percent of our callers say, "Hey, you're right." 489 00:31:19,463 --> 00:31:22,381 So maybe I shouldn't go on. Let's quit while I'm ahead. 490 00:31:22,465 --> 00:31:25,008 - Well, don't die on me now, doc. - No. 491 00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:28,384 Sorry, I had to say that. Tell me a little bit about your Mercitron... 492 00:31:28,468 --> 00:31:31,636 - Something I hope the... - See? He's doing good. 493 00:31:31,719 --> 00:31:32,845 What you said before is awfully good. 494 00:31:32,928 --> 00:31:34,429 Sharp as a tack. 495 00:31:34,512 --> 00:31:38,098 "It's good that people realize what's at stake here." 496 00:31:38,181 --> 00:31:41,349 I mean, self-determination is... 497 00:31:41,433 --> 00:31:44,059 a basic human right... 498 00:31:44,142 --> 00:31:46,644 and everyone should have it. 499 00:31:46,727 --> 00:31:49,020 By flipping the switch on your suicide machine... 500 00:31:49,103 --> 00:31:50,479 kind of like hitting this button here. 501 00:31:50,562 --> 00:31:55,940 Well, sure, or carbon monoxide. 502 00:31:56,024 --> 00:31:58,775 "Which actually is a quicker procedure. 503 00:31:58,858 --> 00:32:01,360 And I can assure you as a pathologist..." 504 00:32:01,443 --> 00:32:04,611 gas inhalation always leaves the deceased... 505 00:32:04,695 --> 00:32:07,571 with a rosy, colorful afterglow. 506 00:32:07,654 --> 00:32:09,364 Well, hopefully our listeners aren't listening... 507 00:32:09,447 --> 00:32:12,949 in their garages this morning. If they are, open the door. 508 00:32:13,991 --> 00:32:17,785 We're getting rather ghoulish here at 7:55 in the morning. 509 00:32:17,868 --> 00:32:21,870 You are live with Bob Bender and I hesitate to say live, Doctor... 510 00:32:21,954 --> 00:32:24,913 because we're talking death with Dr. Death. 511 00:32:24,997 --> 00:32:27,748 And if you want to end it, call Dr. Kevorkian. 512 00:32:27,832 --> 00:32:31,375 - "That's K-E-V-O-R-K-I-A-N." - This is not an ad. 513 00:32:31,458 --> 00:32:33,293 "I just don't want to give the wrong impression. 514 00:32:33,376 --> 00:32:37,003 I am not here advertising. I'm..." 515 00:32:50,968 --> 00:32:53,095 Hi, there. 516 00:32:56,596 --> 00:32:58,222 Oh, no. Not you, lady. 517 00:32:58,306 --> 00:33:00,640 - Oh, stop it. I don't bite. - Stay away from me, lady. 518 00:33:00,723 --> 00:33:03,266 I'm sorry I backed out on you that way... 519 00:33:03,350 --> 00:33:04,517 but that's water under the bridge. 520 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,851 I think we need to have a conversation. 521 00:33:05,935 --> 00:33:07,644 - Water under the bridge? - Yeah. 522 00:33:07,727 --> 00:33:11,187 I ended up using my VW van in the park. 523 00:33:11,271 --> 00:33:14,064 - Water under the bridge? - That was very resourceful of you. 524 00:33:14,147 --> 00:33:15,523 Oh, thank you. 525 00:33:15,606 --> 00:33:18,149 I know that you're upset, but you have to let it go. 526 00:33:18,233 --> 00:33:21,151 We need to have a bigger conversation. 527 00:33:21,234 --> 00:33:24,819 And that's a much better sweater. 528 00:33:24,903 --> 00:33:27,195 It's more cheerful. 529 00:33:29,238 --> 00:33:32,073 You know, I don't get many visitors up here. 530 00:33:33,324 --> 00:33:35,575 Women especially. 531 00:33:35,658 --> 00:33:38,743 With your charms, I'm shocked. 532 00:33:40,286 --> 00:33:42,912 I hope you like it. 533 00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:46,330 - I made it just for you. - Thank you. 534 00:33:48,957 --> 00:33:51,583 You know, doc, you have to stop pushing... 535 00:33:51,666 --> 00:33:53,751 for organ donations. 536 00:33:53,834 --> 00:33:58,587 It'd be better if you just focused on one thing at a time. 537 00:33:58,670 --> 00:33:59,713 That sounds like... 538 00:33:59,796 --> 00:34:04,093 it comes straight out of your hemlock society playbook. 539 00:34:04,176 --> 00:34:05,803 I'm the first to admit hemlock has its faults. 540 00:34:05,887 --> 00:34:06,930 That's why I'm here. 541 00:34:07,013 --> 00:34:08,139 I agree... 542 00:34:08,223 --> 00:34:12,019 that it should be self-determination without compromise. 543 00:34:12,102 --> 00:34:13,437 And for the record, I also agree... 544 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,065 That terminally ill is an undefinable term. 545 00:34:16,148 --> 00:34:19,235 So I say, establish your criteria... 546 00:34:19,319 --> 00:34:22,990 multiple doctor examinations, psych assessments. 547 00:34:23,073 --> 00:34:26,911 Make sure that all physical treatments have been exhausted... 548 00:34:26,994 --> 00:34:31,833 and maybe the blessing of a priest or a rabbi would be good. 549 00:34:33,752 --> 00:34:37,173 Funny. My mom used to make these for us, only with a pickle. 550 00:34:37,256 --> 00:34:39,175 And no crusts. 551 00:34:39,258 --> 00:34:42,137 Sorry about the crust. I usually cut them off... 552 00:34:42,220 --> 00:34:46,934 but somehow I thought you'd like crust. 553 00:34:49,103 --> 00:34:53,191 She was tortured in a nursing home until the day she died. 554 00:34:53,275 --> 00:34:56,195 Mind gone, bed sores the size of dinner plates. 555 00:34:56,278 --> 00:34:59,365 If you looked in them, you could see her spine. 556 00:35:00,575 --> 00:35:03,328 Who was it for you? Your mother? 557 00:35:03,411 --> 00:35:05,288 Your father? 558 00:35:05,372 --> 00:35:09,919 I don't see any pictures anywhere of anybody. 559 00:35:10,002 --> 00:35:13,715 You know, maybe you're right, what you said before. 560 00:35:15,509 --> 00:35:18,262 One thing at a time. 561 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,769 Fair enough. So... 562 00:35:24,853 --> 00:35:27,314 I was snooping around a little bit. 563 00:35:27,397 --> 00:35:29,900 - Oh yeah. - Can you tell me... 564 00:35:29,984 --> 00:35:34,405 About Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller? 565 00:35:34,489 --> 00:35:39,870 Sure. Miss Miller has MS and has had it for a decade. 566 00:35:39,953 --> 00:35:42,581 She has hardly a motor skill left. 567 00:35:42,665 --> 00:35:46,086 Her husband took off a month after the diagnosis. 568 00:35:46,169 --> 00:35:50,132 And we've got Mrs. Wantz who has severe pelvic pain. 569 00:35:50,215 --> 00:35:52,593 She's had 10 operations, all for naught. 570 00:35:52,676 --> 00:35:55,388 The pain's completely debilitating. 571 00:35:55,471 --> 00:35:58,433 "I've thought about it a long time. 572 00:35:58,517 --> 00:36:00,102 A long time. 573 00:36:00,185 --> 00:36:02,730 Yeah, I have... 574 00:36:02,813 --> 00:36:05,399 and I have no qualms... 575 00:36:05,483 --> 00:36:07,527 about my decision. 576 00:36:07,610 --> 00:36:10,405 I could do it tonight." 577 00:36:10,489 --> 00:36:13,117 "What is it you want? Put it in plain English." 578 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,370 "Yeah, I want to die." 579 00:36:16,454 --> 00:36:20,125 - "That's plain enough." - "Yup." 580 00:36:20,208 --> 00:36:23,420 "You don't want to have one more Thanksgiving... 581 00:36:23,504 --> 00:36:24,547 with your kids?" 582 00:36:24,630 --> 00:36:27,133 "No. 583 00:36:27,216 --> 00:36:29,844 I just want it over quick. 584 00:36:31,137 --> 00:36:33,599 I have no fear." 585 00:36:33,682 --> 00:36:36,310 "I have tried myself three different times... 586 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,438 and I have not succeeded. 587 00:36:38,521 --> 00:36:41,775 I tried it, as you know, with the car. 588 00:36:41,858 --> 00:36:46,155 I put the hose on the exhaust and into the window. 589 00:36:46,238 --> 00:36:47,865 I stayed in the car over three hours... 590 00:36:47,949 --> 00:36:49,701 and I tried it three times. 591 00:36:49,784 --> 00:36:51,202 Nothing happened. 592 00:36:51,286 --> 00:36:53,288 I get a half hour, an hour sleep at night... 593 00:36:53,371 --> 00:36:56,333 with all the pills and sleeping pills I take. 594 00:36:56,417 --> 00:36:57,918 And it's... 595 00:36:58,002 --> 00:37:02,841 When you've got no quality of life left, it's no. 596 00:37:02,924 --> 00:37:05,427 No more." 597 00:37:05,510 --> 00:37:08,430 "If I do one of you... 598 00:37:08,514 --> 00:37:10,808 there's a chance they'll send me to jail. 599 00:37:10,892 --> 00:37:13,937 I won't be able to do the other." 600 00:37:19,985 --> 00:37:21,863 It's right there. 601 00:37:26,118 --> 00:37:27,536 What's going on here? 602 00:37:27,619 --> 00:37:30,915 They're dead. Wait until you see this. 603 00:37:30,998 --> 00:37:33,292 Excuse me. 604 00:37:36,338 --> 00:37:37,881 Two at a time now. 605 00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:39,675 What's next, a baker's dozen? 606 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:41,343 - Right this way. - Don't touch that. 607 00:37:41,427 --> 00:37:44,681 I'm going to say all you did was drive me up here. 608 00:37:44,764 --> 00:37:46,641 As long as they don't put us in the same cell. 609 00:37:46,725 --> 00:37:49,394 - I'm fine. - You should be so lucky. 610 00:37:49,478 --> 00:37:52,064 No. Sir, it's just him we want. 611 00:37:52,148 --> 00:37:55,777 "Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been involved in a double suicide... 612 00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:59,030 at the Bald Mountain Recreation Area up near Lake Orion. 613 00:37:59,114 --> 00:38:01,241 We're trying to get in touch with our correspondent... 614 00:38:01,325 --> 00:38:04,912 up at the scene there about 40 miles north of Detroit. 615 00:38:04,996 --> 00:38:06,497 Details are sketchy. 616 00:38:06,581 --> 00:38:08,750 Again, it appears that Dr. Jack Kevorkian..." 617 00:38:08,833 --> 00:38:09,876 Fieger! 618 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,632 "has indeed assisted a double suicide this evening. 619 00:38:14,715 --> 00:38:16,926 We're going to go live to the scene now... 620 00:38:17,010 --> 00:38:18,678 and stay on the story." 621 00:38:18,762 --> 00:38:20,013 Bobby! 622 00:38:20,096 --> 00:38:21,932 Where's Jack? 623 00:38:22,015 --> 00:38:23,934 - Can you comment on... - This is ridiculous. 624 00:38:24,018 --> 00:38:26,896 It's absurd. No crime has been committed. 625 00:38:26,979 --> 00:38:30,400 Release him. Release him now. 626 00:38:30,483 --> 00:38:32,986 Everybody settle down. 627 00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:34,113 "Is this live?" 628 00:38:34,196 --> 00:38:36,824 - "Dr. Kevorkian!" - "This better be live." 629 00:38:36,907 --> 00:38:39,786 Two very sick, but wonderful women died here tonight... 630 00:38:39,869 --> 00:38:41,246 by their own choosing. 631 00:38:41,329 --> 00:38:43,540 Dr. Kevorkian was only acting out... 632 00:38:43,624 --> 00:38:46,043 "as their physician. 633 00:38:46,126 --> 00:38:49,380 He did not force anyone to come up here. 634 00:38:49,464 --> 00:38:51,758 Mr. Thompson, if you're watching... 635 00:38:51,841 --> 00:38:55,512 have the gall to charge Dr. Kevorkian tonight. 636 00:38:55,596 --> 00:38:59,058 Bring it on! Do it tonight!" 637 00:39:02,020 --> 00:39:03,855 Don't let them do this to me. 638 00:39:03,939 --> 00:39:07,276 This is how you play the media, Jack. 639 00:39:07,359 --> 00:39:09,862 Get ready to become the most famous doctor in the country. 640 00:39:09,946 --> 00:39:12,574 Isn't this murder? Would you care... 641 00:39:12,657 --> 00:39:14,159 To comment on the religious aspects of this? 642 00:39:14,242 --> 00:39:16,662 What were they suffering from? 643 00:39:28,717 --> 00:39:31,262 I need you to do your job, Dr. Dragovic... 644 00:39:31,345 --> 00:39:33,348 so I can do mine. 645 00:39:33,431 --> 00:39:37,352 Science itself gives us no arguments, Mr. Thompson. 646 00:39:44,944 --> 00:39:48,031 I told you I'm not going to touch your food. 647 00:39:48,115 --> 00:39:51,994 It would be an admission of guilt, you know? 648 00:39:53,871 --> 00:39:57,959 I can go for weeks without food... 649 00:39:58,043 --> 00:39:59,711 Like Ghandi. 650 00:39:59,795 --> 00:40:01,505 You're looking worse than Ghandi, Jack. 651 00:40:01,588 --> 00:40:04,383 - Yeah. - You look like one of your patients. 652 00:40:04,467 --> 00:40:06,594 It's been three days. Come on. 653 00:40:06,678 --> 00:40:10,349 I'm not moving. I'm not paying that bond. 654 00:40:10,432 --> 00:40:12,476 You don't have to. I did. 655 00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:15,396 - Come on, let's go. - You didn't. 656 00:40:15,479 --> 00:40:16,981 You paid my bail? 657 00:40:17,065 --> 00:40:20,944 Yeah, I bailed you out. Let's go. 658 00:40:21,028 --> 00:40:23,113 What kind of lawyer does that? 659 00:40:23,197 --> 00:40:24,365 What the matter with you, Geoff? 660 00:40:24,448 --> 00:40:27,285 Don't you see I'm denying myself nourishment? 661 00:40:27,368 --> 00:40:29,454 I'm starving to death... 662 00:40:29,537 --> 00:40:32,457 for three days to make a point. 663 00:40:32,541 --> 00:40:34,793 - I get it. - This is a protest. 664 00:40:34,877 --> 00:40:37,046 They violated my rights. 665 00:40:37,129 --> 00:40:41,092 You're not supposed to bail me out. It defeats the purpose. 666 00:40:41,176 --> 00:40:43,846 I should fire you, you know? 667 00:40:43,929 --> 00:40:47,558 We're facing an indictment on Wantz and Miller. 668 00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:50,770 Here. 669 00:40:50,854 --> 00:40:53,732 - What's this? - Pie. 670 00:40:53,815 --> 00:40:56,277 This is full of fat and sugar. Are you trying to kill me? 671 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,113 Just eat the fucking pie, Jack. 672 00:41:02,617 --> 00:41:04,035 Oh, and another thing... 673 00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:06,038 the state revoked your medical license. 674 00:41:06,121 --> 00:41:09,292 Good. They took away my career years ago. 675 00:41:09,375 --> 00:41:11,461 It didn't stop me, did it? 676 00:41:11,544 --> 00:41:15,882 Yeah, well, it stops suppliers from providing you with your poisons. 677 00:41:15,966 --> 00:41:18,427 That's what I've got Neal for. 678 00:41:21,806 --> 00:41:24,935 - Where the hell are you going? - Home. 679 00:41:25,018 --> 00:41:26,937 Well, come on, I'll give you a ride. My car's up here. 680 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:30,983 No, I need the exercise. I need to get the blood flowing. 681 00:41:31,067 --> 00:41:34,195 We've got an offer to fly to New York to do The Barbara Walters Show. 682 00:41:34,279 --> 00:41:37,407 Well, if Barbara Walters wants me badly enough... 683 00:41:37,491 --> 00:41:38,659 she knows where to find me. 684 00:41:38,742 --> 00:41:40,536 Don't make this complicated, Jack. 685 00:41:40,619 --> 00:41:43,706 - Can't do it. - This is important. 686 00:41:44,958 --> 00:41:48,587 One too many passenger rides in a F-86 Sabre... 687 00:41:48,670 --> 00:41:50,881 when I was stationed in Seoul. 688 00:41:50,965 --> 00:41:55,303 Flying scares the daylights out of me, Geoff. 689 00:41:55,386 --> 00:41:57,848 Nighty night! 690 00:42:32,554 --> 00:42:34,014 "Doctor, let me be frank. 691 00:42:34,098 --> 00:42:37,435 You're aware that people think you are a ghoul?" 692 00:42:37,518 --> 00:42:39,646 "It's emotionalism. 693 00:42:40,689 --> 00:42:43,650 When heart transplants first started..." 694 00:42:43,734 --> 00:42:46,195 there was the same prevalent feeling... 695 00:42:46,278 --> 00:42:48,322 even among doctors, that it was wrong. 696 00:42:48,406 --> 00:42:51,284 It was contrary to God's will... 697 00:42:51,368 --> 00:42:53,203 contrary to nature. 698 00:42:53,286 --> 00:42:57,666 Isn't it ghoulish to rip a person's chest open... 699 00:42:57,750 --> 00:43:03,799 and take out a heart or a bypass operation? 700 00:43:03,882 --> 00:43:05,298 "Ether is the same thing. 701 00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:08,047 You have ether, been around for centuries. 702 00:43:08,131 --> 00:43:10,463 It wasn't used. 703 00:43:10,547 --> 00:43:12,046 Not until 1846. 704 00:43:12,130 --> 00:43:13,879 It was discovered in 1543... 705 00:43:13,962 --> 00:43:15,004 and before that... 706 00:43:15,087 --> 00:43:18,669 everybody was being operated on while they were awake! 707 00:43:18,753 --> 00:43:21,793 Surgeons were cutting them open while they were awake. 708 00:43:21,877 --> 00:43:23,168 - Did you know that, Geoff?" - "No." 709 00:43:23,251 --> 00:43:26,417 "Yes. And you know why it was banned? 710 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:28,666 Because of religious dogma. 711 00:43:28,749 --> 00:43:31,332 Because of the foolish notion... 712 00:43:31,415 --> 00:43:35,831 that there's a God almighty who wills us to suffer." 713 00:43:35,914 --> 00:43:37,538 "Do you turn patients down?" 714 00:43:37,622 --> 00:43:42,079 "I turn 97-98 percent of the patients who contact me. 715 00:43:42,162 --> 00:43:43,287 I turn them down." 716 00:43:43,370 --> 00:43:45,494 "Should there be second opinions?" 717 00:43:45,578 --> 00:43:48,452 "Always a second opinion. A third opinion." 718 00:43:48,535 --> 00:43:49,951 "But there wasn't in your case." 719 00:43:50,535 --> 00:43:53,784 "No, there wasn't because no one cooperates with me." 720 00:43:53,867 --> 00:43:55,117 "What do you say to people who say... 721 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,532 'Dr. Kevorkian, you are playing God'?" 722 00:43:58,615 --> 00:44:00,948 "I say to them... 723 00:44:01,031 --> 00:44:02,989 'So, what?' 724 00:44:03,072 --> 00:44:06,030 When a doctor gives you a pill, he's playing God... 725 00:44:06,113 --> 00:44:09,529 because he's interfering with your natural process. 726 00:44:09,612 --> 00:44:12,111 All doctors believe they're God. 727 00:44:12,195 --> 00:44:14,069 They shouldn't, but they do. 728 00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:15,194 But I prefer that... 729 00:44:15,277 --> 00:44:19,234 than the doctors who are more interested in their stock portfolios... 730 00:44:19,318 --> 00:44:21,775 than they are in their patients." 731 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,440 Did you see the way she looked at you? 732 00:44:26,524 --> 00:44:28,731 She probably thought I was unattainable. 733 00:44:28,815 --> 00:44:31,855 She was very smitten. 734 00:44:31,939 --> 00:44:34,188 I knew I should've called her Barbara. 735 00:44:34,271 --> 00:44:36,062 - Coffee? - Yeah. 736 00:44:36,146 --> 00:44:39,645 - Decaf? - No, decaf's for cowards. 737 00:44:39,728 --> 00:44:41,436 The autopsy proved that Mrs. Wantz... 738 00:44:41,519 --> 00:44:44,352 had no anatomical evidence of disease in her entire body. 739 00:44:44,435 --> 00:44:45,768 It was all in her head and he knows it. 740 00:44:45,851 --> 00:44:48,475 {\an5}And Mrs. Miller, although she had a terrible disease... 741 00:44:48,559 --> 00:44:49,725 could have lived for many years... 742 00:44:49,808 --> 00:44:52,724 {\an5}if she had been more willing to participate in her own care. 743 00:44:52,807 --> 00:44:55,723 So you're a doctor too now, Dick? 744 00:44:55,806 --> 00:44:57,723 Your Honor, there isn't one iota... 745 00:44:57,806 --> 00:45:00,014 one scintilla, one speck of evidence... 746 00:45:00,097 --> 00:45:02,513 that he murdered Marjorie Wantz or Sherry Miller. 747 00:45:02,596 --> 00:45:04,887 This is all part of your puritanical persecution... 748 00:45:04,970 --> 00:45:07,969 Enough. I've reviewed the indictment. 749 00:45:08,053 --> 00:45:09,594 I'm dismissing the charges. 750 00:45:09,677 --> 00:45:12,593 The act of assisting a suicide is not a criminal act... 751 00:45:12,676 --> 00:45:14,592 according to our current laws. 752 00:45:14,676 --> 00:45:17,925 But without a medical license, he cannot dispense medication. 753 00:45:18,008 --> 00:45:21,299 - So don't do anything stupid. - He won't, Your Honor. 754 00:45:21,382 --> 00:45:24,839 I'm going to kick your ass until my legs fall off. 755 00:45:24,923 --> 00:45:26,922 It was a clear victory for the most important... 756 00:45:27,005 --> 00:45:28,630 civil rights issue of our time. 757 00:45:28,713 --> 00:45:31,254 So you're obviously not happy with the judge's decision. 758 00:45:31,337 --> 00:45:32,879 Where do you go from here? 759 00:45:32,962 --> 00:45:34,878 Governor engler needs to push a ban through... 760 00:45:34,961 --> 00:45:38,835 the state legislature. Something, anything. 761 00:45:38,918 --> 00:45:43,250 Unless you want Michigan to become the suicide capital of the world. 762 00:45:46,624 --> 00:45:48,624 Michigan residents, by a five to one margin... 763 00:45:48,707 --> 00:45:51,498 said that they'd acquit him of murder if they were on a jury... 764 00:45:51,581 --> 00:45:54,830 and over 70 percent believe that doctors should be allowed... 765 00:45:54,914 --> 00:45:58,871 to help a terminally ill patient commit suicide. 766 00:46:00,454 --> 00:46:03,578 I'm a deeply religious man, Mr. Lessenberry... 767 00:46:03,661 --> 00:46:08,451 and what Kevorkian proposes goes against every fiber of my being. 768 00:46:08,534 --> 00:46:11,034 - If this were accepted... - Room service. 769 00:46:11,117 --> 00:46:14,199 How on God's green earth would we prevent abuse? 770 00:46:14,283 --> 00:46:15,949 Nobody here ordered any room service! 771 00:46:16,032 --> 00:46:17,657 - Who is this? Hello? - Open the door. 772 00:46:17,740 --> 00:46:19,240 - Who is this? - It's the police, Jack. 773 00:46:19,323 --> 00:46:22,114 - We know you're in there. - What is this? 774 00:46:22,197 --> 00:46:24,155 - Get out of the way. - Don't you push me, Sir. 775 00:46:24,238 --> 00:46:25,779 - Where is it, Jack? - Nothing is going on here. 776 00:46:25,863 --> 00:46:27,737 - We're just talking. - Where are you folks from? 777 00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:29,403 - California. - Nothing illegal is going on. 778 00:46:29,486 --> 00:46:31,319 Why are you harassing us? We're not criminals! 779 00:46:31,403 --> 00:46:32,486 - You don't have to say a word. - What's in the case? 780 00:46:32,569 --> 00:46:35,860 I know that too many sick people lack access to care and support... 781 00:46:35,943 --> 00:46:38,317 too many families are saddled with medical expenses... 782 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,983 but if this were legalized, it could lead... 783 00:46:40,067 --> 00:46:41,816 to cost containment strategies. 784 00:46:41,899 --> 00:46:44,274 - We're here to prevent a suicide. - We came to save your life. 785 00:46:44,357 --> 00:46:46,940 - Check this out. - Who the hell asked you to? 786 00:46:47,023 --> 00:46:50,647 - Who the hell ask you? - I'm sorry, Isabel. 787 00:46:50,730 --> 00:46:54,187 Where is the suicide poison? Where do you keep them? 788 00:46:54,271 --> 00:46:56,395 Don't they have to have a search warrant? 789 00:46:56,478 --> 00:47:00,186 That is not the world I raised my three boys in. 790 00:47:00,269 --> 00:47:02,768 It's not a world I'd recognize. 791 00:47:02,851 --> 00:47:05,059 "Not a world I would recognize"? 792 00:47:05,142 --> 00:47:07,100 What is this Dick Thompson bullshit? 793 00:47:07,183 --> 00:47:09,016 "I believe it's called journalism." 794 00:47:09,099 --> 00:47:10,766 Both sides deserve a voice, Geoff. 795 00:47:10,849 --> 00:47:12,682 Fuck that and fuck you! 796 00:47:12,765 --> 00:47:15,514 You think you're hot shit because The New York Times is printing you? 797 00:47:15,598 --> 00:47:19,555 Look. There's only one side to this story, ours. 798 00:47:19,638 --> 00:47:22,887 Don't let me cut off your access to Jack. 799 00:47:31,426 --> 00:47:34,050 I feel for our patients. 800 00:47:35,092 --> 00:47:37,882 - They deserve better. - Yeah. 801 00:47:39,799 --> 00:47:44,380 Someone like Isabel, she deserves respect. 802 00:47:45,672 --> 00:47:48,129 What are we doing sneaking around... 803 00:47:48,213 --> 00:47:50,629 like we're thieves? What is that? 804 00:47:50,712 --> 00:47:53,503 - We're the good guys. - Yeah. 805 00:47:53,586 --> 00:47:57,085 They bust down the motel door. 806 00:47:57,168 --> 00:47:58,501 Crowbars and guns... 807 00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:02,417 like we're some Chicago bootleggers. 808 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:06,374 We have to hide them in places like this. 809 00:48:06,457 --> 00:48:08,623 We have to handle these things... 810 00:48:08,706 --> 00:48:12,372 in the backs of vans in the middle of the night. 811 00:48:13,455 --> 00:48:16,038 Drop bodies off... 812 00:48:16,121 --> 00:48:18,995 in emergency room parking lots. 813 00:48:21,411 --> 00:48:24,660 We're not criminals. 814 00:48:24,743 --> 00:48:27,617 The criminals are those who are trying to stop us. 815 00:48:27,701 --> 00:48:30,700 Those are the ones that should be ashamed. 816 00:48:31,908 --> 00:48:34,157 "0-1-5-0-6, Saginaw Motel. 817 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:38,656 Reported assisted suicide. Dr. Jack Kevorkian." 818 00:48:38,739 --> 00:48:40,738 This may count as loitering. 819 00:48:40,822 --> 00:48:43,904 We shouldn't be out here too long without an attorney. 820 00:48:47,486 --> 00:48:50,444 - Let's go. - Yup. 821 00:48:50,527 --> 00:48:54,443 "0-6-1-1-9, suspect not on premises. 822 00:48:58,067 --> 00:49:01,774 - Female, late 50s." - "7-8-5, no resident here." 823 00:49:01,857 --> 00:49:02,898 "R-34, roger. 824 00:49:02,982 --> 00:49:06,439 C-3-3-5, cleared out number 1 to number 3." 825 00:49:33,264 --> 00:49:36,513 Please tell me what it is your daughter has in her brain... 826 00:49:36,597 --> 00:49:41,720 that won't let her accept the fact that you can pay a bill with cash? 827 00:49:41,803 --> 00:49:43,844 - Please. I did. - And the one thing... 828 00:49:43,928 --> 00:49:46,843 - What you don't do... - Calm down. 829 00:49:46,927 --> 00:49:49,009 Is pay with a check. 830 00:49:49,093 --> 00:49:51,092 You don't pay bills with a check. 831 00:49:51,175 --> 00:49:54,841 Why, my dear girl? Because bills paid by check... 832 00:49:54,924 --> 00:49:56,632 leave a paper trail. 833 00:49:56,715 --> 00:49:59,590 A paper trail is something someone can follow... 834 00:49:59,673 --> 00:50:01,714 and just so you know... 835 00:50:01,797 --> 00:50:04,130 Just so you know... 836 00:50:04,213 --> 00:50:06,921 what I predicted has come true. 837 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:09,300 The cops traced. 838 00:50:09,384 --> 00:50:14,603 - The cops? - They traced it to my storage file. 839 00:50:14,686 --> 00:50:17,985 They broke in and they took... whatever, who knows? 840 00:50:18,068 --> 00:50:21,325 All my personal files to do God knows what with. 841 00:50:21,409 --> 00:50:23,329 - And now they padlocked it... - All right. 842 00:50:23,413 --> 00:50:26,962 - So, I can't get in! - I'm sorry about it, Jack. 843 00:50:27,045 --> 00:50:28,214 - You're sorry? - I'm sorry it happened. 844 00:50:28,298 --> 00:50:30,218 No one would expect this to happen... 845 00:50:30,302 --> 00:50:33,266 and Mr. Fieger can get everything back for you again. 846 00:50:33,350 --> 00:50:34,602 Just calm down. 847 00:50:34,686 --> 00:50:37,358 - I have explained to you. - Nobody's going to put... 848 00:50:37,442 --> 00:50:40,907 humpty dumpty together again. Do you understand? He is gone. 849 00:50:40,991 --> 00:50:44,038 He is finish. They have my files! 850 00:50:44,122 --> 00:50:47,462 I'm sorry about that. There was an overdue bill... 851 00:50:47,546 --> 00:50:49,550 - That's right. - And Ava sent the check in. 852 00:50:49,633 --> 00:50:52,556 - She just wasn't thinking. - She wasn't thinking? 853 00:50:52,639 --> 00:50:54,268 - That's right. - You're being so generous. 854 00:50:54,351 --> 00:50:58,067 It was stupid. It was blatant stupidity... 855 00:50:58,151 --> 00:51:00,030 - on her part and your part. - Keep your voice down. 856 00:51:00,113 --> 00:51:03,871 - Stupid! She was being stupid. - Hold on there. 857 00:51:03,954 --> 00:51:05,666 Don't you talk about my daughter that way. 858 00:51:05,750 --> 00:51:07,169 - I'll talk about her that way. - Do you hear me? 859 00:51:07,253 --> 00:51:09,883 - You calm down. Now stop it! - I am completely calm! 860 00:51:09,967 --> 00:51:13,558 - You're not calm! - I can't trust you. 861 00:51:13,641 --> 00:51:14,685 - I can't trust her. - You can't trust me? 862 00:51:14,768 --> 00:51:17,566 Either one of you. Together. You don't make it easy for me. 863 00:51:17,649 --> 00:51:19,403 You're supposed to make it easy for me, but you don't. 864 00:51:19,486 --> 00:51:21,866 How dare you, Jack? How dare you? 865 00:51:21,950 --> 00:51:25,290 All my life, I've been making it easier for you. 866 00:51:25,373 --> 00:51:27,879 - Yeah, you make it... - All my life! Do you hear me? 867 00:51:27,962 --> 00:51:29,716 - Look who's yelling now. - And it's been no walk in the park! 868 00:51:29,799 --> 00:51:31,762 That's right, it's been no walk in the park! 869 00:51:31,845 --> 00:51:34,851 And I'm going to tell you something else, nobody takes care of me. 870 00:51:34,935 --> 00:51:37,273 I want to ask you, who do you think takes care of me? 871 00:51:37,356 --> 00:51:38,818 - Nobody! Not you, Jack. - I'm going to take care of you. 872 00:51:38,901 --> 00:51:40,237 - Certainly not you! - Right now... 873 00:51:40,321 --> 00:51:41,740 I'm going to take care of you. From now on... 874 00:51:41,824 --> 00:51:43,870 all you're going to do is operate the camera. 875 00:51:43,953 --> 00:51:46,250 That'll take care of you. Believe me. 876 00:51:46,333 --> 00:51:48,170 You'll be fine with that, because you can't screw that up. 877 00:51:48,254 --> 00:51:50,926 - Okay, is that what you think? - As for your daughter... 878 00:51:51,010 --> 00:51:52,721 - I have news for you. - As for your daughter... 879 00:51:52,805 --> 00:51:53,932 the jury is out. 880 00:51:54,016 --> 00:51:56,563 You'll be doing it for yourself, Jack. You're going to do it. 881 00:51:56,646 --> 00:51:57,732 How's that for news? 882 00:51:57,815 --> 00:52:00,529 - You'll do it, Jack! - That's fine by me. 883 00:52:00,613 --> 00:52:02,784 I'm through with you! I'm through with it! 884 00:52:02,867 --> 00:52:06,291 Go ahead, set the alarm. Who cares? 885 00:52:06,374 --> 00:52:08,838 Is this us? Yeah. 886 00:52:11,176 --> 00:52:13,598 You set that off. 887 00:52:14,808 --> 00:52:17,397 Where the hell is she going? 888 00:52:22,616 --> 00:52:26,958 Margo, could you step into my office for a second? I need to talk to you. 889 00:52:32,094 --> 00:52:35,685 My dream was to be an olympic skier. 890 00:52:35,768 --> 00:52:41,071 And after the car accident, there was... 891 00:52:41,154 --> 00:52:43,785 a chance, well, they told me that there was a chance... 892 00:52:43,868 --> 00:52:47,835 that I'd get the use of my legs again, but it never happened. 893 00:52:47,918 --> 00:52:51,384 So... 894 00:52:51,467 --> 00:52:54,432 I doused myself with gasoline one night... 895 00:52:54,515 --> 00:52:58,189 and lit a match. 896 00:53:06,122 --> 00:53:08,544 You know, the only thing worse than this nightmare existence... 897 00:53:08,627 --> 00:53:12,761 is the nightmare of a botched suicide attempt. 898 00:53:14,055 --> 00:53:18,398 I wish I could help you, Son, but it's not possible. 899 00:53:18,481 --> 00:53:22,114 What you're suffering? 900 00:53:22,197 --> 00:53:24,660 What Dr. Kevorkian is trying to say, Glen... 901 00:53:24,744 --> 00:53:26,999 is that you're clinically depressed... 902 00:53:27,082 --> 00:53:30,172 and under these circumstances, we can't help you. 903 00:53:30,255 --> 00:53:32,259 If you deal with your depression... 904 00:53:32,343 --> 00:53:35,266 you can lead a fulfilling and satisfying life. 905 00:53:35,349 --> 00:53:40,944 And we'll help you find someone that will do that. 906 00:54:04,785 --> 00:54:07,081 Parkinson's takes years... 907 00:54:07,164 --> 00:54:11,340 Years before it compromises your daily activities. 908 00:54:12,801 --> 00:54:16,350 I don't think we can help you now, is what I'm saying. 909 00:54:16,434 --> 00:54:20,985 But if and when the time comes, we'll be here for you. 910 00:54:21,068 --> 00:54:23,364 Okay. 911 00:54:43,865 --> 00:54:46,704 You know I've never been one to hold grudges. 912 00:54:46,788 --> 00:54:49,376 And I'd like to let bygones be bygones. 913 00:54:49,460 --> 00:54:51,547 What do you say? 914 00:54:51,631 --> 00:54:53,969 Good. 915 00:54:54,053 --> 00:54:57,142 So, we're reconciled? 916 00:54:57,226 --> 00:55:00,190 - I hope so. - Well, that's good. 917 00:55:00,274 --> 00:55:02,570 Good. It's good to see you. 918 00:55:02,654 --> 00:55:05,576 Good to see you. 919 00:55:05,660 --> 00:55:08,290 You need to get ready. 920 00:55:08,374 --> 00:55:11,756 - Ready for what? - Dinner at Mr. Fieger's. 921 00:55:11,839 --> 00:55:13,927 Very nice. 922 00:55:14,010 --> 00:55:15,973 What's that? 923 00:55:16,056 --> 00:55:18,311 It's a notice of sale. 924 00:55:18,394 --> 00:55:21,526 I mean, this whole building's kaput. 925 00:55:21,609 --> 00:55:23,822 Well, don't worry about it. 926 00:55:23,906 --> 00:55:28,832 We can live together, we'll be known as the unemployed Kevorkians! Yay! 927 00:55:28,916 --> 00:55:30,628 Unemployed? What does that mean? 928 00:55:30,711 --> 00:55:33,509 It means... 929 00:55:33,592 --> 00:55:37,350 - I got fired. - No. When? 930 00:55:37,433 --> 00:55:39,479 A few weeks ago. 931 00:55:39,563 --> 00:55:43,321 - You're just telling me now? - Jack, we had a falling out. 932 00:55:44,490 --> 00:55:46,786 What happened? 933 00:55:49,082 --> 00:55:50,669 I'm your sister. 934 00:55:50,752 --> 00:55:52,590 What else? 935 00:55:52,673 --> 00:55:56,473 Life is God's choice! 936 00:55:56,556 --> 00:56:01,065 - Oh, my gosh. - These are my new daily visitors. 937 00:56:01,149 --> 00:56:04,239 - Life is God's choice! - Are you going to kill... 938 00:56:04,322 --> 00:56:06,660 every single person in a wheelchair? 939 00:56:06,744 --> 00:56:09,374 Disabled people are not worthless. They are not a drain on society. 940 00:56:09,458 --> 00:56:11,837 You cannot rid the world of inconvenience. 941 00:56:11,921 --> 00:56:15,303 - You are worse than an abortionist. - Shut up, you witch! 942 00:56:15,386 --> 00:56:17,641 These are not comparable issues. 943 00:56:17,725 --> 00:56:21,274 Some great minds have died with the assistance of their doctors. 944 00:56:21,357 --> 00:56:24,321 Sigmund Freud, King George. 945 00:56:24,405 --> 00:56:28,163 If it's good enough for the aristoi, it's good enough for the hoi polloi. 946 00:56:28,246 --> 00:56:32,087 He is leading society into an age of enlightenment... 947 00:56:32,171 --> 00:56:34,843 - You idiots! - Only God can create and destroy. 948 00:56:34,927 --> 00:56:37,265 Have you no religion? Have you no God? 949 00:56:37,348 --> 00:56:39,394 I do, Lady. I have a religion. 950 00:56:39,478 --> 00:56:42,776 His name is Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach. 951 00:56:42,860 --> 00:56:46,659 And at least my God isn't an invented one. 952 00:56:46,743 --> 00:56:54,884 Life is God's choice! 953 00:56:54,968 --> 00:56:58,934 Life is God's choice! 954 00:56:59,018 --> 00:57:01,272 - Life is God's choice! - Who do you think you are? 955 00:57:01,356 --> 00:57:05,489 Life is God's choice! 956 00:57:05,573 --> 00:57:11,669 Life is God's choice! 957 00:57:13,088 --> 00:57:16,512 Life is God's choice... 958 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,858 "A fart on Thomas Putnam!" 959 00:57:44,403 --> 00:57:47,451 Of course, that was the lone laugh in the entire play. 960 00:57:47,534 --> 00:57:50,958 "Because it is my name. 961 00:57:51,041 --> 00:57:55,425 Because I cannot have another in my life. 962 00:57:55,509 --> 00:57:58,390 Because I am not worth the dust... 963 00:57:58,473 --> 00:58:01,605 on the feet of them that hang. 964 00:58:02,983 --> 00:58:06,281 How may I live without my name? 965 00:58:06,365 --> 00:58:09,454 I've given you my soul... 966 00:58:09,538 --> 00:58:12,711 leave me my name." 967 00:58:16,594 --> 00:58:19,020 Is there any more to that? 968 00:58:20,902 --> 00:58:23,579 No. 969 00:58:23,663 --> 00:58:25,168 - Oh, Jack. - That was beautiful, Jack. 970 00:58:25,252 --> 00:58:26,674 - Thank you. - I didn't know you knew that. 971 00:58:26,758 --> 00:58:28,849 That's very good. That was great. 972 00:58:28,933 --> 00:58:33,199 - It's all I know. - You didn't like the sea bass? 973 00:58:33,283 --> 00:58:36,754 It was a bit fishy, but... 974 00:58:36,838 --> 00:58:38,804 No, don't worry. 975 00:58:41,104 --> 00:58:43,154 Why did you never marry, Jack? 976 00:58:43,238 --> 00:58:45,120 He was engaged once. 977 00:58:45,203 --> 00:58:48,299 She worked at Hudson's on Woodward, downtown. 978 00:58:48,382 --> 00:58:50,181 - I saw her. - Let's not go there. 979 00:58:50,264 --> 00:58:52,230 - You never even liked her. - No, I didn't like her. 980 00:58:52,314 --> 00:58:54,656 - Let's not go there. - All right, I won't go there. 981 00:58:54,740 --> 00:58:58,212 Oh, come on. Tell me about this fiance. 982 00:58:58,295 --> 00:59:00,177 Come on, Jack. Say a few words. 983 00:59:00,261 --> 00:59:02,687 - A little something? - What can I tell you? 984 00:59:02,771 --> 00:59:05,531 - We broke up. It was... you know. - I think the truth is... 985 00:59:05,615 --> 00:59:07,832 that girls just make you shake in your boots, Jack. 986 00:59:07,915 --> 00:59:09,965 - Okay. Yeah. - All right then. 987 00:59:10,048 --> 00:59:12,014 Somebody needs some coffee. 988 00:59:12,098 --> 00:59:16,406 So come, Margo, come where it's safe. 989 00:59:21,509 --> 00:59:25,064 Governor Engler's going to be signing a ban in a couple of months. 990 00:59:25,148 --> 00:59:30,125 It'll make assisting a suicide a four year felony. 991 00:59:30,209 --> 00:59:33,220 - That's laughable. - It's a fucking charade. 992 00:59:33,304 --> 00:59:35,019 I'll appeal it when the time is right. 993 00:59:35,103 --> 00:59:37,612 In the meantime, if you have anything lined up... 994 00:59:37,696 --> 00:59:40,415 I suggest you get it done pronto. 995 00:59:44,932 --> 00:59:47,567 We'd have been shit out of luck if I hadn't traced those two down... 996 00:59:47,651 --> 00:59:49,951 at a wholesaler in Kalamazoo... 997 00:59:50,035 --> 00:59:53,088 where it just so happens an old flame of mine works. 998 00:59:53,172 --> 00:59:55,347 A couple of "Happy Hour" margaritas sealed the deal. 999 00:59:55,430 --> 00:59:58,233 Then it was worth the drive then? 1000 00:59:58,316 --> 01:00:00,450 It's always worth it. 1001 01:00:00,533 --> 01:00:02,625 Jack, I just ain't sure these are going to be enough. 1002 01:00:02,708 --> 01:00:06,054 I'll make it work. I can ration it. 1003 01:00:07,100 --> 01:00:11,366 Anyway, I think I've got an idea, a way to recapture the gas. 1004 01:00:11,450 --> 01:00:14,671 Let's stop over at the hardware store. 1005 01:00:14,754 --> 01:00:16,887 And that's... 1006 01:00:18,184 --> 01:00:20,610 I apologize for putting you through this. 1007 01:00:20,694 --> 01:00:22,116 Honey? 1008 01:00:25,169 --> 01:00:28,683 - It's the emphysema. - I know. Yes, I know. 1009 01:00:28,766 --> 01:00:30,816 We'll just wait for it to pass. 1010 01:00:30,899 --> 01:00:33,785 Let him have this one out. Go ahead. 1011 01:00:35,291 --> 01:00:38,219 And we breathe. 1012 01:00:40,770 --> 01:00:42,611 - Okay. - Okay. 1013 01:00:42,694 --> 01:00:45,790 So, we're... I think we're ready for the box first. 1014 01:00:45,873 --> 01:00:47,756 Like I said to you before... 1015 01:00:47,839 --> 01:00:50,432 because of the circumstances I'm in now... 1016 01:00:50,516 --> 01:00:54,030 we have to use this because I'm saving the gas. 1017 01:00:54,113 --> 01:00:57,292 You understand? We're going to recapture the gas. 1018 01:00:57,376 --> 01:00:59,509 They won't give me more canisters... 1019 01:00:59,592 --> 01:01:01,642 and I have other patients to serve. 1020 01:01:01,726 --> 01:01:04,068 Two others, and I... 1021 01:01:04,152 --> 01:01:06,410 Maybe this isn't such a great idea, doctor. 1022 01:01:06,494 --> 01:01:08,878 - I don't think it's going to hold. - I think it's going to be fine. 1023 01:01:08,962 --> 01:01:10,467 We're almost there. 1024 01:01:10,551 --> 01:01:12,642 Just a little more tape right here... 1025 01:01:12,726 --> 01:01:15,487 There. Just to keep it in. Here we go. 1026 01:01:15,570 --> 01:01:17,620 Like we talked about before, all right? 1027 01:01:17,703 --> 01:01:22,764 What we said Neal is going to turn on the gas canister, okay? 1028 01:01:22,848 --> 01:01:23,894 When you are ready. 1029 01:01:23,977 --> 01:01:25,818 So we're going to get the signal from you. 1030 01:01:25,901 --> 01:01:28,035 - Yes, sir. - Sorry for this. 1031 01:01:28,118 --> 01:01:29,749 - This is not usual... - No. 1032 01:01:29,833 --> 01:01:32,385 This is not usually what we do, but we've run out of luck here. 1033 01:01:32,468 --> 01:01:34,518 - It's okay. - Okay. 1034 01:01:34,601 --> 01:01:36,776 Ready. 1035 01:01:42,465 --> 01:01:44,765 All right. 1036 01:01:44,849 --> 01:01:47,609 Thank you for a great life, Cheryl. 1037 01:01:47,693 --> 01:01:50,454 You too. 1038 01:01:59,195 --> 01:02:02,542 You're so brave. 1039 01:02:13,124 --> 01:02:15,131 Wait. Take it off. 1040 01:02:15,215 --> 01:02:16,763 Take it off. 1041 01:02:16,846 --> 01:02:19,690 Take it off. 1042 01:02:19,774 --> 01:02:21,113 - Getting hot. - Hot? 1043 01:02:21,196 --> 01:02:23,371 - Watch his... - Hot. 1044 01:02:23,455 --> 01:02:24,793 - Getting so hot. - It's what? 1045 01:02:24,877 --> 01:02:28,683 - Getting so hot. - Hot. 1046 01:02:28,767 --> 01:02:30,900 - He's burning up. - Okay, maybe we... 1047 01:02:30,984 --> 01:02:32,071 this has got to wait. 1048 01:02:32,155 --> 01:02:35,166 - I think so. - No, please. 1049 01:02:35,250 --> 01:02:36,505 I wasn't prepared for the issue. 1050 01:02:36,588 --> 01:02:39,851 - I'm awfully sorry. So let's... - It's all right, doc. 1051 01:02:39,935 --> 01:02:42,570 It's all right. Now, please. 1052 01:02:42,653 --> 01:02:45,581 Do it now, please. 1053 01:02:45,665 --> 01:02:47,798 Do it. 1054 01:02:50,391 --> 01:02:52,483 Okay, let's do it this way. 1055 01:02:52,566 --> 01:02:56,122 You know, let's get rid of that. 1056 01:02:56,205 --> 01:02:59,677 Just let's just put the box on. It'd be better. 1057 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,768 This is going to be easier, Hugh. 1058 01:03:01,852 --> 01:03:05,993 - This... - Watch your head. 1059 01:03:06,076 --> 01:03:07,373 - Down. - Okay. 1060 01:03:07,457 --> 01:03:08,962 - Watch your head. - Here it is. 1061 01:03:09,046 --> 01:03:10,510 Mind your head. 1062 01:03:10,594 --> 01:03:13,981 Just push it, that's it. That's fine. 1063 01:03:14,065 --> 01:03:15,906 This is going to be easier now... 1064 01:03:15,989 --> 01:03:20,214 because the gas will escape now. 1065 01:03:20,297 --> 01:03:22,389 It won't heat up. 1066 01:03:22,472 --> 01:03:25,818 Just like that, Hugh. Okay? 1067 01:03:25,902 --> 01:03:28,663 Now, air is going to get through, so you'll be all right. 1068 01:03:28,746 --> 01:03:30,587 You're not going to heat up. 1069 01:03:30,670 --> 01:03:33,473 Let me just get this. 1070 01:03:33,556 --> 01:03:35,773 Here we are. 1071 01:03:37,906 --> 01:03:41,085 Okay. Once again, when you're ready, Hugh. 1072 01:03:41,169 --> 01:03:42,800 We'll have Neal turn the gas on again. 1073 01:03:42,884 --> 01:03:45,059 I love you, Darling. 1074 01:03:45,142 --> 01:03:48,572 - I love you. - I love you. 1075 01:03:49,785 --> 01:03:52,880 It's okay, Darling. 1076 01:03:58,987 --> 01:04:01,957 - You... - I love you. 1077 01:04:12,664 --> 01:04:15,132 Oh God. 1078 01:04:20,068 --> 01:04:21,741 I love you. 1079 01:04:21,824 --> 01:04:25,380 I love you, Darling. 1080 01:04:25,463 --> 01:04:28,098 I love you. 1081 01:04:44,076 --> 01:04:47,171 He's gone, my dear. 1082 01:05:01,811 --> 01:05:05,073 I'm going to type out the final action report. 1083 01:05:05,157 --> 01:05:08,336 And give it to you tomorrow. 1084 01:05:16,826 --> 01:05:19,043 God! 1085 01:05:22,389 --> 01:05:24,313 So you ever going to say anything? 1086 01:05:24,397 --> 01:05:27,994 Because nothing irks me more than having you sitting there simmering. 1087 01:05:28,078 --> 01:05:30,336 God forbid I should irk you. 1088 01:05:30,420 --> 01:05:33,515 Well, just spit it out. You've got something to say. 1089 01:05:33,599 --> 01:05:35,732 The Great Jack Kevorkian. You know better. 1090 01:05:35,816 --> 01:05:36,987 That's right. 1091 01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:38,869 Nothing gets in the way of the mission. 1092 01:05:38,953 --> 01:05:41,211 The mission? What mission. 1093 01:05:41,295 --> 01:05:44,014 Is that what you call rationing? 1094 01:05:44,097 --> 01:05:48,405 Taping a fucking sheet of plastic around a poor guy's head? 1095 01:05:48,489 --> 01:05:50,706 We should've waited until we had more gas. 1096 01:05:50,790 --> 01:05:52,923 Oh, and when would that have been I wonder? 1097 01:05:53,006 --> 01:05:55,558 I should've insisted. 1098 01:05:55,641 --> 01:05:58,862 He was... done. 1099 01:05:58,946 --> 01:06:00,953 Do you understand? He wanted it done. 1100 01:06:01,037 --> 01:06:03,087 He was begging for it. We wanted to go. 1101 01:06:03,170 --> 01:06:05,554 We were ready to go. He was begging us to stay. 1102 01:06:05,638 --> 01:06:07,939 He wanted it done. You saw that. 1103 01:06:08,022 --> 01:06:11,368 Yeah, I saw it. It freaked the shit out of me. 1104 01:06:11,452 --> 01:06:15,092 Well, it worked out. 1105 01:06:15,176 --> 01:06:17,812 It got done. 1106 01:06:17,896 --> 01:06:20,783 I knew it would. 1107 01:06:23,629 --> 01:06:25,972 We can't be cutting corners anymore. 1108 01:06:26,056 --> 01:06:27,269 This isn't the old days. 1109 01:06:27,353 --> 01:06:30,993 We're not down in the lab winging it anymore. 1110 01:06:35,722 --> 01:06:38,734 Jack, the next time it doesn't feel right... 1111 01:06:38,818 --> 01:06:41,078 call it off. 1112 01:06:44,593 --> 01:06:48,735 These are my decisions to make, Neal. 1113 01:06:48,819 --> 01:06:50,618 Mine alone. 1114 01:06:51,790 --> 01:06:55,054 Yes, sir, Kemosabe. 1115 01:07:12,126 --> 01:07:15,264 This is the one we got through the search warrant at Kevorkian's... 1116 01:07:15,348 --> 01:07:18,863 and you can see where he's whited out a number of lines and typed over. 1117 01:07:18,947 --> 01:07:21,332 And this is the one found in Nicol's trash... 1118 01:07:21,416 --> 01:07:23,089 by a concerned activist. 1119 01:07:23,173 --> 01:07:26,011 Mr. Gale's desperate pleas to take off his gas mask... 1120 01:07:26,094 --> 01:07:27,972 were deleted and replaced with the phrase... 1121 01:07:28,056 --> 01:07:30,852 "Patient became flushed, agitated. Breathing deeply. 1122 01:07:30,935 --> 01:07:33,439 Increased rate of respiration and muscle tension... 1123 01:07:33,522 --> 01:07:34,733 with no over action." 1124 01:07:34,816 --> 01:07:38,238 This directly contradicts Mr. Nicol's photocopied version... 1125 01:07:38,447 --> 01:07:39,866 Saying, "Take it off." 1126 01:07:39,949 --> 01:07:40,992 And suggests that... 1127 01:07:41,076 --> 01:07:43,663 Dr. Kevorkian was attempting to cover something up. 1128 01:07:43,747 --> 01:07:46,418 Saying, "Take it off," once again... 1129 01:07:46,501 --> 01:07:48,087 he fell into unconsciousness. 1130 01:07:48,170 --> 01:07:51,050 The tragedy is that Mr. Gale did not want to die that day... 1131 01:07:51,133 --> 01:07:53,387 but Dr. Kevorkian didn't care. 1132 01:07:53,470 --> 01:07:56,809 An inquest will be held. 1133 01:07:56,892 --> 01:07:58,186 He lied in his report! 1134 01:07:58,269 --> 01:07:59,855 He is the most honest man I know. 1135 01:07:59,939 --> 01:08:03,611 - Honest to a fault! - Could we continue please? 1136 01:08:05,572 --> 01:08:09,746 Mr. Nicol, when Mr. Gale said, "Take it off"... 1137 01:08:09,829 --> 01:08:12,416 he was talking about the plastic tent on his head... 1138 01:08:12,500 --> 01:08:15,129 not the gas mask. 1139 01:08:15,213 --> 01:08:19,261 And his lungs locked up. That happens with emphysema. 1140 01:08:19,344 --> 01:08:22,849 Then why would Dr. Kevorkian feel the need to correct... 1141 01:08:22,933 --> 01:08:25,687 You're grasping at straws here. 1142 01:08:27,899 --> 01:08:31,279 It was a simple typographical error... 1143 01:08:31,363 --> 01:08:33,032 which I had pointed out to him... 1144 01:08:33,115 --> 01:08:34,868 and he corrected. 1145 01:08:34,952 --> 01:08:37,915 He typed up a new copy which was going to go in our records. 1146 01:08:37,998 --> 01:08:39,500 Before you ransacked his apartment! 1147 01:08:39,584 --> 01:08:42,380 But this typo, in its original, was four lines long. 1148 01:08:42,463 --> 01:08:46,344 Why wouldn't he just rip it up and start again if it was a mistake? 1149 01:08:48,807 --> 01:08:51,978 To save on paper. 1150 01:08:52,062 --> 01:08:54,232 Dr. Kevorkian is... 1151 01:08:54,315 --> 01:08:56,652 incredibly cheap. 1152 01:08:58,029 --> 01:09:01,117 It was a very emotional day... 1153 01:09:01,201 --> 01:09:03,788 as they all are. 1154 01:09:03,872 --> 01:09:07,210 And I'm sure, when he typed it up it was in the middle of the night... 1155 01:09:07,294 --> 01:09:09,547 and he was trying to do three things at once... 1156 01:09:09,631 --> 01:09:11,968 like he always does. 1157 01:09:13,554 --> 01:09:17,602 Mrs. Gale, please. 1158 01:09:17,685 --> 01:09:20,231 For your husband's sake. 1159 01:09:20,314 --> 01:09:22,860 The truth. 1160 01:09:26,616 --> 01:09:30,622 My husband of 22 years... 1161 01:09:31,832 --> 01:09:36,589 Faced death so many times from his seizures. 1162 01:09:36,673 --> 01:09:39,928 He used to pray not to wake up. 1163 01:09:40,011 --> 01:09:42,474 He talked about shooting himself... 1164 01:09:42,557 --> 01:09:46,480 but he didn't want to leave me the mess to clean up. 1165 01:09:48,775 --> 01:09:53,574 So here's your truth, Mr. Thompson. 1166 01:09:53,658 --> 01:09:55,995 As sick as Hugh was... 1167 01:09:56,078 --> 01:09:58,499 I begged him not to make the call. 1168 01:09:58,582 --> 01:10:02,046 I begged him every night for nine months. 1169 01:10:02,129 --> 01:10:04,091 And then before Christmas... 1170 01:10:04,174 --> 01:10:07,805 I asked him what he wanted for a gift... 1171 01:10:07,888 --> 01:10:11,602 The last gift I'd ever give him... 1172 01:10:14,899 --> 01:10:19,657 And he said, "There's only one thing you can get me, sweetheart. 1173 01:10:19,740 --> 01:10:24,080 It's an appointment with Dr. Kevorkian." 1174 01:10:30,215 --> 01:10:34,305 I find no factual basis to proceed. 1175 01:10:45,739 --> 01:10:47,534 Exonerated once again. 1176 01:10:47,617 --> 01:10:51,832 Jack, fifteen. Thompson, zilch. 1177 01:10:51,915 --> 01:10:55,421 No wonder everyone's drinking at this show. 1178 01:10:55,504 --> 01:10:58,426 Is that Santa Claus stepping on a baby? 1179 01:10:58,509 --> 01:11:02,724 - Yes. - Tell me about doc's Christmases. 1180 01:11:02,807 --> 01:11:04,685 It looks quite morbid. 1181 01:11:04,769 --> 01:11:07,440 Well, except for the flower that is. 1182 01:11:07,523 --> 01:11:10,319 Thank God I'm not a shrink. 1183 01:11:10,403 --> 01:11:14,200 Our grandparents, our aunts, our uncles... 1184 01:11:14,284 --> 01:11:17,998 The Armenian Holocaust was the same as the Jews. 1185 01:11:18,081 --> 01:11:20,710 Only our parents, barely teenagers... 1186 01:11:20,794 --> 01:11:22,588 were able to flee. 1187 01:11:22,672 --> 01:11:24,842 Growing up, all we heard were those terrible stories... 1188 01:11:24,925 --> 01:11:29,975 of all the bloodshed, and it frightened Jack so. 1189 01:11:30,058 --> 01:11:34,523 It's all dealing with the melancholy age-old struggle... 1190 01:11:34,607 --> 01:11:38,405 between warmth of life, the iciness of death. 1191 01:11:38,488 --> 01:11:41,827 Only I'm sure that theme would be better served... 1192 01:11:41,910 --> 01:11:44,706 had a real artist done it. 1193 01:11:44,790 --> 01:11:46,542 Many nights he would just sit in his bed... 1194 01:11:46,626 --> 01:11:48,378 lights on a must, you know. 1195 01:11:48,462 --> 01:11:50,715 Clutching that little dog of ours so tightly. 1196 01:11:50,799 --> 01:11:53,219 Wait a minute. He had a dog? 1197 01:11:53,303 --> 01:11:54,763 You're looking so intently. 1198 01:11:54,847 --> 01:11:56,224 - Yes. - What are you feeling? 1199 01:11:56,307 --> 01:12:01,023 - That's what I'd like to know. - Jack, it's... 1200 01:12:01,107 --> 01:12:02,233 - Hi. - Hi. 1201 01:12:02,317 --> 01:12:05,238 I know what you're feeling. You're feeling it's macabre. 1202 01:12:05,322 --> 01:12:06,699 - It is macabre... - Yes, my friend. 1203 01:12:06,782 --> 01:12:08,952 But you're looking at it nonetheless. 1204 01:12:09,036 --> 01:12:10,079 It's like war. 1205 01:12:10,162 --> 01:12:11,915 War, you're drawn to it... 1206 01:12:11,999 --> 01:12:13,543 but after you've been through it... 1207 01:12:13,626 --> 01:12:19,802 you say, "That was grotesque, macabre, strange, ugly." 1208 01:12:19,886 --> 01:12:21,764 That's the feeling I'm trying to convey. 1209 01:12:21,847 --> 01:12:24,810 - I'm sold. - I heard "sold". 1210 01:12:24,894 --> 01:12:27,857 - How much, Jack? - Whatever you think is fair. 1211 01:12:27,940 --> 01:12:31,487 - My patients thank you in advance. - Good. 1212 01:12:31,571 --> 01:12:34,826 This is from my private collection. 1213 01:13:00,992 --> 01:13:02,035 Hello? 1214 01:13:02,118 --> 01:13:04,581 "Dr. Kevorkian, I'm afraid we have some bad news... 1215 01:13:04,664 --> 01:13:06,918 regarding your sister." 1216 01:13:07,836 --> 01:13:09,088 It appears she had the heart attack... 1217 01:13:09,171 --> 01:13:13,052 a couple of hours before she called 911. 1218 01:13:13,136 --> 01:13:14,596 Perhaps she thought that whatever it was... 1219 01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:16,641 it would just pass. 1220 01:13:18,477 --> 01:13:21,482 I'm terribly sorry for your loss. 1221 01:13:34,043 --> 01:13:37,090 Wouldn't you like to see her? 1222 01:13:41,263 --> 01:13:43,892 No. 1223 01:13:55,410 --> 01:13:58,373 By late, much too often deceived. 1224 01:13:58,456 --> 01:14:01,378 By too early, a death now relieved... 1225 01:14:01,461 --> 01:14:03,506 of the burden she bore... 1226 01:14:03,589 --> 01:14:05,593 my sister, Margo gave more... 1227 01:14:05,676 --> 01:14:09,515 to my life than she ever received. 1228 01:14:22,327 --> 01:14:23,662 The whole question of death and dying... 1229 01:14:23,746 --> 01:14:27,126 Involves the most profound and complex ethical questions... 1230 01:14:27,210 --> 01:14:29,588 that we must decide as a society. 1231 01:14:29,672 --> 01:14:31,299 At no time, have the people of Michigan... 1232 01:14:31,383 --> 01:14:34,847 or the Michigan Legislature, granted Jack Kevorkian... 1233 01:14:34,930 --> 01:14:37,225 or any other individual the sole right... 1234 01:14:37,309 --> 01:14:39,437 to decide who lives or dies in our state. 1235 01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,106 - Thank you. - Thank you, Governor. 1236 01:14:41,190 --> 01:14:42,233 Congratulations. 1237 01:14:42,316 --> 01:14:43,986 Over here. Just bring it right over here. 1238 01:14:44,069 --> 01:14:46,364 We're going to save some of that stuff. 1239 01:14:49,703 --> 01:14:51,497 We all support you, Jack. 1240 01:14:51,581 --> 01:14:53,375 Thanks, fellas. Thank you. 1241 01:14:53,459 --> 01:14:54,961 - Could I? - Oh, yeah. 1242 01:14:55,045 --> 01:14:56,714 Jimmy! 1243 01:14:56,797 --> 01:14:58,175 Yeah, give me a hand here. 1244 01:14:58,258 --> 01:15:00,386 I'm signing autograph! 1245 01:15:00,470 --> 01:15:03,516 Okay? Wait a minute. 1246 01:15:21,878 --> 01:15:24,633 I got it in a settlement a couple of years ago. 1247 01:15:24,716 --> 01:15:27,053 It beats the hell out of your apartment. 1248 01:15:28,221 --> 01:15:30,976 A lake. 1249 01:15:34,356 --> 01:15:36,735 - Geese? - Yeah. 1250 01:15:38,404 --> 01:15:41,701 Well, it is a bit romantic for my taste. 1251 01:15:41,784 --> 01:15:46,375 Well, sue me for trying to put a goddamn roof over your head, Jack. 1252 01:15:46,458 --> 01:15:49,338 I'm not letting you live in some YMCA. Come on. 1253 01:15:49,421 --> 01:15:53,845 Fine. Only I haven't taken this yet. 1254 01:15:53,928 --> 01:15:56,891 And if I do, I'm paying the rent. 1255 01:15:56,975 --> 01:16:00,188 No charity case. 1256 01:16:00,271 --> 01:16:02,859 Okay, I'll take it. 1257 01:16:02,942 --> 01:16:04,612 Okay. Geoff? 1258 01:16:04,695 --> 01:16:06,615 - Yeah? - Let's go. 1259 01:16:06,698 --> 01:16:10,287 Let's go. Don't you have work to get back to? 1260 01:16:10,371 --> 01:16:12,248 Like what? 1261 01:16:12,332 --> 01:16:13,793 "Like what?" 1262 01:16:13,876 --> 01:16:18,091 Like appealing the 15-month ban that's tying my hands. 1263 01:16:18,174 --> 01:16:20,219 What's on your mind, Jack? 1264 01:16:20,303 --> 01:16:23,140 They made a law, specifically to stop me. 1265 01:16:23,224 --> 01:16:25,603 I want to challenge it. 1266 01:16:25,686 --> 01:16:28,399 I want to test it. 1267 01:16:28,482 --> 01:16:29,901 What is this? 1268 01:16:29,984 --> 01:16:34,408 Thomas Hyde, 30 years old. 1269 01:16:34,492 --> 01:16:37,204 Lou Gehrig's disease. 1270 01:16:40,084 --> 01:16:43,464 Are you going to go along with me on this? 1271 01:16:43,547 --> 01:16:46,510 I'm with you, Jack. 1272 01:16:46,594 --> 01:16:50,350 "Okay, don't strain too much. Don't strain. 1273 01:16:51,768 --> 01:16:54,022 He's going get a cramp here? Does he? Yes. 1274 01:16:54,105 --> 01:16:57,027 All right, that's enough of the physical stuff, Tom." 1275 01:16:57,110 --> 01:16:58,153 No more physical. 1276 01:16:58,237 --> 01:17:02,201 I just wanted you to move a little for the record. 1277 01:17:02,285 --> 01:17:05,123 "So now, Tom, tell me. 1278 01:17:05,206 --> 01:17:07,042 What is it you wish? 1279 01:17:07,126 --> 01:17:10,005 In plain English." 1280 01:17:47,230 --> 01:17:49,979 Bond is set for 50,000 dollars. Are you going to pay that today? 1281 01:17:50,062 --> 01:17:51,520 That is beyond egregious, Your Honor. 1282 01:17:51,603 --> 01:17:54,352 That is no way I'm going to pay a bond like that, Your Honor. 1283 01:17:54,436 --> 01:17:57,018 You can forget it. 1284 01:17:57,101 --> 01:17:58,684 - Because this is the last time... - Jack. 1285 01:17:58,768 --> 01:18:02,350 You people unjustly take away from me my liberties. 1286 01:18:02,433 --> 01:18:03,807 I need a moment with my client, Your Honor. 1287 01:18:03,891 --> 01:18:07,389 And I will not... hear me now... I will not eat. 1288 01:18:07,473 --> 01:18:08,514 - Jack. - Guaranteed. 1289 01:18:08,597 --> 01:18:11,180 - I apologize for my client. - You are assisting in my suicide. 1290 01:18:11,263 --> 01:18:14,054 Please. Jack, just come on. 1291 01:18:30,215 --> 01:18:32,380 Jack, this is better than I could've imagined. 1292 01:18:32,464 --> 01:18:35,379 Every paper is treating you as a victim. 1293 01:18:37,087 --> 01:18:40,378 Don't even think about paying my bond. 1294 01:18:40,461 --> 01:18:41,627 Let them convict me. 1295 01:18:41,710 --> 01:18:43,835 You're not getting convicted on my watch. 1296 01:18:43,918 --> 01:18:47,250 Here, Jack. Come on. 1297 01:18:47,333 --> 01:18:49,874 Have a bazooka. 1298 01:18:51,290 --> 01:18:54,164 - Bazooka? - No, it is not cheating. 1299 01:18:54,248 --> 01:18:55,455 It's just a little apple juice. 1300 01:18:55,539 --> 01:18:57,955 I put some vitamin drops in, that's all. 1301 01:18:58,038 --> 01:18:59,621 Go ahead. 1302 01:18:59,704 --> 01:19:02,536 - Vitamin drops? - Yummy. There you go. 1303 01:19:02,620 --> 01:19:05,077 I've seen you before, haven't I? What the hell is in there? 1304 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,368 You've seen better days, doc. Just drink it down. 1305 01:19:07,451 --> 01:19:09,825 I sure have. 1306 01:19:09,909 --> 01:19:11,908 That's it. 1307 01:19:16,781 --> 01:19:18,947 That's sweet of you, Janet. 1308 01:19:19,030 --> 01:19:20,655 - My pleasure, doc. - Share some with me. 1309 01:19:20,738 --> 01:19:24,487 No, you have it. I'm on the wagon. 1310 01:19:29,610 --> 01:19:31,942 Because it's... 1311 01:19:33,025 --> 01:19:36,274 Because it's... 1312 01:19:36,357 --> 01:19:39,398 What's this? I know this. 1313 01:19:39,481 --> 01:19:42,272 I know this well. 1314 01:19:42,355 --> 01:19:43,896 Why can't I... 1315 01:19:43,980 --> 01:19:47,478 Because it is my name. 1316 01:19:47,562 --> 01:19:50,227 Because it is... My soul. 1317 01:19:50,311 --> 01:19:52,227 Because it... 1318 01:19:52,310 --> 01:19:53,851 How could I not know that? 1319 01:19:53,934 --> 01:19:55,892 Because it is my name. 1320 01:19:55,975 --> 01:19:58,766 Because I cannot have... 1321 01:19:58,849 --> 01:20:00,807 I cannot have another in my... 1322 01:20:00,890 --> 01:20:02,515 Because I cannot have another in my life. 1323 01:20:02,598 --> 01:20:04,514 Because it is my name. 1324 01:20:04,597 --> 01:20:08,221 I have given you... My life. 1325 01:20:08,304 --> 01:20:09,804 I've given you my life. 1326 01:20:09,887 --> 01:20:13,136 Because I would... No. 1327 01:20:13,219 --> 01:20:15,302 Because I cannot have... 1328 01:20:15,385 --> 01:20:18,134 Because I cannot have... let me not... 1329 01:20:21,216 --> 01:20:23,924 I cannot have another in my life. 1330 01:20:24,007 --> 01:20:26,214 This is make me... 1331 01:20:31,796 --> 01:20:34,836 How may I live without my name? 1332 01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:37,794 I've given you my soul. 1333 01:20:41,251 --> 01:20:44,000 Margo. 1334 01:20:44,083 --> 01:20:46,832 Margo. 1335 01:20:46,915 --> 01:20:50,539 You were right. 1336 01:20:50,622 --> 01:20:54,121 It's nicer. 1337 01:20:54,204 --> 01:20:57,078 It is nicer. 1338 01:21:00,036 --> 01:21:06,450 Because it is... 1339 01:21:06,533 --> 01:21:10,365 Because it is... 1340 01:21:10,448 --> 01:21:14,031 Because it is... 1341 01:21:26,234 --> 01:21:28,234 It's been 19 days. 1342 01:21:28,317 --> 01:21:31,608 I'm granting Mr. Fieger's request to reduce your bond to 100 dollars. 1343 01:21:31,691 --> 01:21:34,148 Thank you, Your Honor. 1344 01:21:36,356 --> 01:21:39,105 If you want to fire me, go ahead. 1345 01:21:46,769 --> 01:21:48,768 "So, is there anything else... 1346 01:21:48,851 --> 01:21:50,018 you wish to add, Tom... 1347 01:21:50,101 --> 01:21:51,642 or have Heidi tell us? 1348 01:21:51,725 --> 01:21:55,182 Or Heidi, is there anything you would add... 1349 01:21:55,266 --> 01:21:58,265 before we conclude this discusion?" 1350 01:22:14,425 --> 01:22:16,591 "I'm sorry, honey. 1351 01:22:18,007 --> 01:22:20,507 That's all I wanted to say. 1352 01:22:20,590 --> 01:22:24,172 It's too much for us." 1353 01:22:24,255 --> 01:22:31,544 Jail Jack! 1354 01:22:31,628 --> 01:22:34,168 Jail Jack! 1355 01:22:34,252 --> 01:22:35,751 Mr. Thompson, what happened? 1356 01:22:35,834 --> 01:22:38,833 I remind Kevorkian this "not guilty" verdict... 1357 01:22:38,917 --> 01:22:42,707 does not change the fact that we still have a ban in effect. 1358 01:22:42,790 --> 01:22:44,956 I think mankind took... 1359 01:22:45,039 --> 01:22:48,746 took an historic step today out of the dark ages. 1360 01:22:48,830 --> 01:22:50,871 It makes me think of the Nuremburg trials. 1361 01:22:50,954 --> 01:22:55,036 When a law is deemed immoral by you... 1362 01:22:55,119 --> 01:22:58,451 You must disobey it. 1363 01:22:58,535 --> 01:23:01,783 - Thank you. - Dick. 1364 01:23:01,867 --> 01:23:05,824 The man's invincible. So am I. 1365 01:23:05,907 --> 01:23:07,615 I just got word that the court of appeals is... 1366 01:23:07,698 --> 01:23:10,489 going to hear arguments on your ban! 1367 01:23:10,572 --> 01:23:12,779 Hell, I'm going to win that too! 1368 01:23:12,863 --> 01:23:15,487 Why can't we have clinics doing this stuff? 1369 01:23:15,570 --> 01:23:18,277 Every city should have a clinic where someone can go to. 1370 01:23:18,361 --> 01:23:19,985 As a matter of fact, I just got an idea. 1371 01:23:20,068 --> 01:23:21,110 I'm going to have one of my own. 1372 01:23:21,193 --> 01:23:22,942 How does it feel to be victorious? 1373 01:23:23,026 --> 01:23:24,900 Victorious? I never feel victorious. 1374 01:23:24,983 --> 01:23:26,566 I just go ahead and do what I do. 1375 01:23:26,649 --> 01:23:30,440 This isn't a victory to me. It's just common sense. 1376 01:23:32,106 --> 01:23:34,272 You don't need hardly nothing. The walls are good. 1377 01:23:34,355 --> 01:23:36,229 No, they're not. You can't leave it white. 1378 01:23:36,313 --> 01:23:39,312 - What's wrong with white? - You want something that's cream... 1379 01:23:39,395 --> 01:23:41,769 or robin's egg blue. Something that's warm. 1380 01:23:41,852 --> 01:23:44,560 Something that's peaceful. 1381 01:23:44,643 --> 01:23:46,226 Should it be higher, you think? 1382 01:23:46,309 --> 01:23:48,933 Well, I don't have any window nails on me right now, doc. 1383 01:23:49,016 --> 01:23:52,515 Well, you know, Neal, it's not like it's 500 pounds. 1384 01:23:52,598 --> 01:23:54,348 You just lift it up, there it is. 1385 01:23:54,431 --> 01:23:56,180 That looks good. 1386 01:23:56,264 --> 01:23:59,804 It's not centered enough, but who cares, right? 1387 01:23:59,887 --> 01:24:01,137 - There you go. - I think it's perfect. 1388 01:24:01,220 --> 01:24:02,470 - Yup. - No. 1389 01:24:02,553 --> 01:24:06,552 I couldn't tell because I've got to go outside and see it here. 1390 01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:09,926 Oh, yeah. 1391 01:24:10,009 --> 01:24:11,800 So if you're unconscious... 1392 01:24:12,175 --> 01:24:16,465 they have the right to turn off the feeding tube and let you die. 1393 01:24:16,548 --> 01:24:19,672 But if you're conscious, rational... 1394 01:24:19,755 --> 01:24:24,129 and begging for assistance to be allowed to die... 1395 01:24:24,212 --> 01:24:28,752 we refuse. 1396 01:24:34,792 --> 01:24:38,124 Now how is it possible... 1397 01:24:38,207 --> 01:24:40,921 that a mentally competent adult... 1398 01:24:41,004 --> 01:24:43,843 not have the right to look a doctor in the eye... 1399 01:24:43,927 --> 01:24:46,724 and say "I've had enough"? 1400 01:24:48,352 --> 01:24:53,320 "I can't endure anymore pain. 1401 01:24:53,404 --> 01:24:55,450 Help me. 1402 01:24:55,533 --> 01:25:00,000 I've had enough." 1403 01:25:00,084 --> 01:25:01,127 Do we really want... 1404 01:25:01,211 --> 01:25:04,050 government making those decisions for us? 1405 01:25:06,430 --> 01:25:08,392 No. 1406 01:25:08,475 --> 01:25:10,772 It can't be. 1407 01:25:10,855 --> 01:25:13,527 It just can't be. 1408 01:25:13,611 --> 01:25:15,406 "In a rented storefront in Warren... 1409 01:25:15,489 --> 01:25:18,203 Kevorkian aided the death of a Kansas City, Missouri woman... 1410 01:25:18,287 --> 01:25:19,539 who had been inflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease." 1411 01:25:19,622 --> 01:25:22,002 Are you trying to say you didn't know who I was? 1412 01:25:22,086 --> 01:25:23,129 You didn't really think... 1413 01:25:23,213 --> 01:25:24,424 it was going to be an Armenian bakery, did you? 1414 01:25:24,507 --> 01:25:28,265 You've got 24 hours to vacate. Not a minute more. 1415 01:25:28,348 --> 01:25:30,686 If we can get into another storage unit... 1416 01:25:30,770 --> 01:25:33,650 not storage unit, but another place... 1417 01:25:33,734 --> 01:25:35,821 We've got a place to move... 1418 01:25:35,905 --> 01:25:37,700 move all the crap so we don't have to... 1419 01:25:37,784 --> 01:25:38,827 You've got to store it. 1420 01:25:38,911 --> 01:25:41,207 Or they're going to throw it out on the street. 1421 01:25:42,418 --> 01:25:45,507 Oh, shoot. 1422 01:25:49,056 --> 01:25:51,310 - Ray boy. - They shut us down, Ray. 1423 01:25:51,394 --> 01:25:53,147 They just shut us down. 1424 01:25:53,231 --> 01:25:55,193 You know, the same kind of thing... 1425 01:25:55,277 --> 01:25:58,408 spurred the '67 riots, you know. 1426 01:25:58,491 --> 01:26:01,247 You remember? Of course you remember. You were there. 1427 01:26:01,330 --> 01:26:04,670 You were a captain, weren't you? 1428 01:26:04,754 --> 01:26:07,217 What's the matter? 1429 01:26:10,473 --> 01:26:13,730 - Hey, Jan. - Janny? 1430 01:26:13,813 --> 01:26:17,821 - What's going on? - I've got the cancer. 1431 01:26:17,905 --> 01:26:19,575 Pancreatic. 1432 01:26:19,658 --> 01:26:21,913 They diagnosed me this morning. 1433 01:26:21,996 --> 01:26:23,583 They've given me six months... 1434 01:26:23,666 --> 01:26:27,758 but I'm not rolling over like that. 1435 01:26:29,678 --> 01:26:33,143 Here, make yourself useful. Put that in the oven. 1436 01:26:35,398 --> 01:26:39,364 - Here. - Oh, what you got... 1437 01:26:39,448 --> 01:26:42,370 - Pecan sandies here? - No, it's chocolate chip. 1438 01:26:42,453 --> 01:26:45,042 - Here, here's another one. - Yeah. 1439 01:26:49,342 --> 01:26:52,265 So what's new with you? 1440 01:26:53,768 --> 01:26:56,106 They shut us down. 1441 01:26:56,189 --> 01:26:59,362 So we're going to have to... 1442 01:26:59,446 --> 01:27:02,869 You know, find another place. 1443 01:27:02,952 --> 01:27:05,583 We will. We'll find another place. 1444 01:27:05,666 --> 01:27:08,547 Don't worry. 1445 01:27:26,708 --> 01:27:28,962 Hey, Jack. 1446 01:27:29,046 --> 01:27:32,511 Hey, Geoff. 1447 01:27:32,595 --> 01:27:35,768 They don't want to eat today. 1448 01:27:39,316 --> 01:27:42,281 I'm sorry to hear about Janet. 1449 01:27:44,952 --> 01:27:47,165 Here. 1450 01:27:49,962 --> 01:27:51,298 The Court of Appeals ruling just came in... 1451 01:27:51,382 --> 01:27:53,762 and they ruled in our favor. 1452 01:27:53,845 --> 01:27:55,473 They said that the law was so poorly worded... 1453 01:27:55,557 --> 01:27:58,187 that it could not be upheld. 1454 01:27:59,231 --> 01:28:04,449 Well, I'm glad to hear there's still some smart people in power left. 1455 01:28:05,744 --> 01:28:07,497 That was the good news. 1456 01:28:07,581 --> 01:28:09,710 They also ruled that there's no constitutional right... 1457 01:28:09,793 --> 01:28:11,672 to commit suicide. 1458 01:28:11,756 --> 01:28:13,384 I take back what I just said. 1459 01:28:13,467 --> 01:28:18,185 And that aiding in one falls under an old common-law definition of murder. 1460 01:28:18,269 --> 01:28:20,607 Common law? What the hell is that? 1461 01:28:20,690 --> 01:28:22,402 We're going to re-try him on Sherry Miller... 1462 01:28:22,485 --> 01:28:25,115 And Marjorie Wantz. Those two weren't terminal. 1463 01:28:25,199 --> 01:28:26,869 And it's my job to see they get justice. 1464 01:28:26,952 --> 01:28:30,084 - Are you really certain that... - I've got him in my crosshairs now. 1465 01:28:30,167 --> 01:28:32,547 The public doesn't want another trial. 1466 01:28:32,630 --> 01:28:35,177 From all I hear, they're ready to turn the page. 1467 01:28:35,261 --> 01:28:40,187 I stopped worrying about public perception a long time ago, David. 1468 01:28:40,271 --> 01:28:43,652 Public crusader, or attention-grabbing egotist... 1469 01:28:43,736 --> 01:28:45,907 you be the judge as Dr. Jack Kevorkian... 1470 01:28:45,990 --> 01:28:47,410 appears at the courthouse... 1471 01:28:47,493 --> 01:28:50,290 locked in an old-fashioned wooden pillory. 1472 01:28:50,374 --> 01:28:53,505 Prosecutor Dick Thompson can only hope his roll of the dice... 1473 01:28:53,589 --> 01:28:55,760 finally muzzles the maverick physician. 1474 01:28:55,843 --> 01:28:59,058 Top defense lawyer Mayer Morganroth has his money on Jack. 1475 01:28:59,141 --> 01:29:02,815 - Why the stocks? - This is a clear manifestation... 1476 01:29:02,899 --> 01:29:07,366 of the existence of the inquisition in the state. 1477 01:29:07,449 --> 01:29:13,169 Medieval punishment for a medieval concept. 1478 01:29:13,253 --> 01:29:15,340 - This is not a trial. - Your Honor, please. 1479 01:29:15,424 --> 01:29:18,722 What law have I broken? Tell me. What law he I broken? 1480 01:29:18,805 --> 01:29:21,895 Some antiquated common laws. Common law. 1481 01:29:21,978 --> 01:29:23,690 - Do you know that it's a crime... - You Honor... 1482 01:29:23,774 --> 01:29:25,986 To convert from Christianity to Islam? 1483 01:29:26,070 --> 01:29:28,491 - Did you know that was a common law? - May I continue please? 1484 01:29:28,575 --> 01:29:30,787 It's a crime not to believe in the Bible. 1485 01:29:30,871 --> 01:29:33,000 That's a common law. This is not a trial. 1486 01:29:33,084 --> 01:29:34,127 - Your Honor... - This is not a trial. 1487 01:29:34,211 --> 01:29:37,133 It's a lynching, and I'm not going to participate in my own lynching. 1488 01:29:37,217 --> 01:29:39,931 Can we all presume, just for the hell of it... 1489 01:29:40,014 --> 01:29:41,601 that we are really in a courtroom, okay? 1490 01:29:41,684 --> 01:29:42,728 No, I will not presume. 1491 01:29:42,811 --> 01:29:44,523 - That there's a judge, a jury... - I refuse to presume. 1492 01:29:44,607 --> 01:29:47,195 And real witnesses. Can we presume that this is a real trial? 1493 01:29:47,278 --> 01:29:50,034 No, we can't, because there is no law here. 1494 01:29:50,117 --> 01:29:52,497 - Am I wrong? - You're wrong! 1495 01:29:52,581 --> 01:29:55,795 Prove it. Cite to me one... 1496 01:29:55,879 --> 01:29:58,551 common-law case of assisted suicide. 1497 01:29:58,634 --> 01:30:01,056 - One. Go ahead. I'm listening. - I will ask the questions, sir. 1498 01:30:01,139 --> 01:30:04,020 - We're all waiting. Cite one. - Do you want to answer my question? 1499 01:30:04,104 --> 01:30:05,773 - Smartass. Go ahead and do it. - Your Honor. 1500 01:30:05,857 --> 01:30:07,861 Dr. Kevorkian, I'm warning you. 1501 01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:10,700 You know, Your Honor, you may cite me for contempt... 1502 01:30:10,783 --> 01:30:12,286 but I am finished with this farce. 1503 01:30:12,370 --> 01:30:14,416 I'm not going to be a part of it. I just can't. 1504 01:30:14,499 --> 01:30:18,674 - I'm so sick and tired of this fusion... - Resume the stand, Dr. Kevorkian. 1505 01:30:18,758 --> 01:30:20,511 Of religious dogma and medicine. 1506 01:30:20,595 --> 01:30:23,141 Can I ask for a recess, please? Just a couple of minutes, Your Honor. 1507 01:30:23,225 --> 01:30:26,147 - Recess. - Thank you, Your Honor. 1508 01:30:31,616 --> 01:30:36,752 "Can't, there's nothing anybody can do for me... 1509 01:30:36,835 --> 01:30:37,879 and there's certainly no step..." 1510 01:30:37,962 --> 01:30:39,591 Time to give it up, Dick. 1511 01:30:39,674 --> 01:30:42,889 "Or I would not be here." 1512 01:30:47,105 --> 01:30:50,946 Go on. 1513 01:30:51,030 --> 01:30:53,535 Jack. 1514 01:30:53,618 --> 01:30:56,457 I told you those videotapes were going to be our golden ticket. 1515 01:30:56,541 --> 01:31:00,549 We have to take this to the Supreme Court, Geoff. 1516 01:31:00,632 --> 01:31:03,722 We have to do it. We've still got to get a law... 1517 01:31:03,805 --> 01:31:07,187 - legalizing assisted suicide, no? - Congratulations. 1518 01:31:07,270 --> 01:31:09,817 Hey, Jack. Come on. You won. Enjoy yourself. 1519 01:31:09,901 --> 01:31:12,614 Morganroth is right, Jack. You'll never see another courtroom again. 1520 01:31:12,698 --> 01:31:14,618 The house of cards is falling. 1521 01:31:14,702 --> 01:31:17,332 And Engler's going down with it. 1522 01:31:18,668 --> 01:31:21,424 - Ladies and gentlemen! - Come on. 1523 01:31:21,507 --> 01:31:25,265 Please, I have an important announcement. 1524 01:31:25,348 --> 01:31:28,521 I have decided to run for Governor. 1525 01:31:30,233 --> 01:31:33,948 Fieger for Governor! 1526 01:31:34,032 --> 01:31:37,664 Feiger's your finest! 1527 01:31:37,748 --> 01:31:41,088 Next stop, Lansing! 1528 01:31:52,109 --> 01:31:56,284 David Gorcyca, Oakland County Prosecutor. 1529 01:31:56,368 --> 01:31:58,581 It has a nice ring to it. 1530 01:31:58,664 --> 01:32:02,129 You know, you owe me after the way I demolished Thompson for you. 1531 01:32:02,213 --> 01:32:03,632 And I know you'll stay out of Jack's hair. 1532 01:32:03,716 --> 01:32:05,803 Thomson blew away too many taxpayer dollars... 1533 01:32:05,887 --> 01:32:07,766 on these prosecutions. 1534 01:32:07,849 --> 01:32:10,604 I've no intention to waste one more nickel. 1535 01:32:10,688 --> 01:32:12,066 As long as Kevorkian stays in line... 1536 01:32:12,149 --> 01:32:14,404 he can assist as many patients as he damn well pleases. 1537 01:32:14,487 --> 01:32:15,948 No worries. 1538 01:32:16,115 --> 01:32:20,416 Jack's learned to listen to everything I say. 1539 01:32:20,499 --> 01:32:25,760 You know, I'm only operating by the grace of this prosecutor. 1540 01:32:25,843 --> 01:32:26,887 Go ahead. 1541 01:32:26,970 --> 01:32:28,014 You can go do your thing... 1542 01:32:28,098 --> 01:32:30,143 in some dark little corner of the universe... 1543 01:32:30,227 --> 01:32:33,400 but do it quietly, you know? 1544 01:32:33,483 --> 01:32:35,320 The lingering of death. 1545 01:32:35,404 --> 01:32:39,245 What a business. Keep death alive. 1546 01:32:39,328 --> 01:32:41,833 Hospitals don't make money otherwise. 1547 01:32:41,917 --> 01:32:44,672 Drug companies either. 1548 01:32:44,756 --> 01:32:47,219 If you're rich and you have the money... 1549 01:32:47,302 --> 01:32:48,805 you can pay to die. 1550 01:32:48,889 --> 01:32:54,400 But the poor, they can only afford to stick it out and suffer. 1551 01:32:54,483 --> 01:32:57,573 They say complacency is a virtue. 1552 01:32:57,656 --> 01:32:58,700 Stop whining. 1553 01:32:58,783 --> 01:33:01,706 You make me more nauseous than my chemo. 1554 01:33:01,789 --> 01:33:05,171 You have full reign. Just deal with it. 1555 01:33:05,255 --> 01:33:07,509 Yeah. 1556 01:33:09,304 --> 01:33:11,058 I think the biggest mistake of my life... 1557 01:33:11,141 --> 01:33:13,229 was not getting married. 1558 01:33:13,312 --> 01:33:16,944 - Excuse me? - I could've, you know. 1559 01:33:17,028 --> 01:33:19,449 Procreated. 1560 01:33:19,533 --> 01:33:21,286 Kept the family name alive. 1561 01:33:21,370 --> 01:33:22,789 - Why not? - Procreate? 1562 01:33:22,873 --> 01:33:25,336 You would've made that big a sacrifice... 1563 01:33:25,420 --> 01:33:29,595 to keep the family name alive? You would've done that? 1564 01:33:29,678 --> 01:33:33,769 Well, sometimes, you've got to get your hands a little dirty. 1565 01:33:35,940 --> 01:33:40,491 Well, could you have loved though, doc? 1566 01:33:40,575 --> 01:33:42,746 That's the bigger question. 1567 01:33:42,829 --> 01:33:46,837 Could you have loved? 1568 01:33:49,050 --> 01:33:52,515 You didn't put sugar in here again. 1569 01:33:54,143 --> 01:33:56,606 Don't get up. 1570 01:33:56,690 --> 01:34:00,030 We need to have a conversation. 1571 01:34:01,616 --> 01:34:06,167 You know, I'm not lugging this thing around just because it's sexy. 1572 01:34:06,251 --> 01:34:08,046 And you're the only doctor in my neighborhood... 1573 01:34:08,129 --> 01:34:09,883 that practices euthanasia. 1574 01:34:09,966 --> 01:34:12,889 Oh, we're not there yet. 1575 01:34:12,972 --> 01:34:16,855 You've got plenty of time. 1576 01:34:16,938 --> 01:34:19,986 "Fieger!" 1577 01:34:20,070 --> 01:34:22,282 "Okay, let's keep these signs up. 1578 01:34:22,366 --> 01:34:25,038 Let's keep them up there. Don't drop that. 1579 01:34:26,082 --> 01:34:27,835 Did you get a t-shirt? 1580 01:34:27,919 --> 01:34:31,050 Get those buttons out there. Buttons!" 1581 01:34:31,133 --> 01:34:34,515 "What is your official stance on the assisted suicide issue?" 1582 01:34:34,598 --> 01:34:36,644 "I give my word to the people of Michigan... 1583 01:34:36,728 --> 01:34:40,026 that I will not be supporting doctor-assisted suicide." 1584 01:34:40,109 --> 01:34:42,072 "Even with your history with Dr. Kevorkian?" 1585 01:34:42,155 --> 01:34:47,833 "What I've always said is I support the individual's right to choose. 1586 01:34:47,917 --> 01:34:52,592 But I repeat, I will not be supporting doctor-assisted suicide." 1587 01:34:52,676 --> 01:34:55,891 "There you have it, Folks. Now back to you, John. 1588 01:34:55,974 --> 01:34:57,394 This is Megan from Channel 4 News." 1589 01:34:57,477 --> 01:34:59,272 "There's something happening here, people. 1590 01:34:59,356 --> 01:35:02,612 And if you don't know what it is, it's Geoffrey Fieger." 1591 01:35:02,696 --> 01:35:05,660 "The 47-year-old Fieger's flare for the dramatic... 1592 01:35:05,744 --> 01:35:08,290 has enlivened a campaign that most analysts... 1593 01:35:08,374 --> 01:35:10,545 said would be dishwater dull. 1594 01:35:10,628 --> 01:35:12,758 No longer advocating for Kevorkian... 1595 01:35:12,841 --> 01:35:15,294 Fieger is now advocating for himself... 1596 01:35:15,378 --> 01:35:17,706 and campaigning with Michigan voters. 1597 01:35:17,789 --> 01:35:20,991 Filling himself as the anti-politician." 1598 01:35:21,075 --> 01:35:23,985 "Governor Engler is dumber than Dan Quayle... 1599 01:35:24,069 --> 01:35:25,607 and twice as ugly. 1600 01:35:25,690 --> 01:35:28,476 He's a racist and he's a liar." 1601 01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:31,096 "It's the acerbic tongue of Geoffrey Fieger's... 1602 01:35:31,179 --> 01:35:34,298 that Republicans say they'll make the major issue... 1603 01:35:34,381 --> 01:35:36,419 of this upcoming race." 1604 01:35:48,561 --> 01:35:51,555 God had His chance to come take me. 1605 01:35:51,639 --> 01:35:54,716 I'll go to Him instead. 1606 01:36:45,365 --> 01:36:48,151 Are you going to look at me, doc? 1607 01:36:50,230 --> 01:36:52,351 Or is it an Armenian thing? 1608 01:36:52,434 --> 01:36:55,220 - Is what? - You know, keeping it all inside. 1609 01:36:55,303 --> 01:37:00,002 Just keep it going. Is that an Armenian thing? 1610 01:37:00,085 --> 01:37:01,457 I don't know. 1611 01:37:01,541 --> 01:37:03,204 Actually, how could it be an Armenian thing? 1612 01:37:03,287 --> 01:37:07,071 Margo was just as Armenian as you are and she talked my ear off. 1613 01:37:07,154 --> 01:37:08,818 She told me everything. 1614 01:37:08,901 --> 01:37:13,433 She could share. You don't share. 1615 01:37:13,517 --> 01:37:16,344 What do you want me to share? 1616 01:37:16,427 --> 01:37:19,713 Anything. Everything. 1617 01:37:19,796 --> 01:37:22,332 - I'm afraid... - I know. 1618 01:37:22,416 --> 01:37:25,035 - No, you don't. - Yes, I do. 1619 01:37:25,118 --> 01:37:27,697 I'm not afraid for myself, you dope. 1620 01:37:27,780 --> 01:37:30,732 I'm afraid for you. 1621 01:37:30,815 --> 01:37:35,514 Your little band of Kevorkians is shrinking into nothing. 1622 01:37:35,598 --> 01:37:39,091 Will you come closer? I can't see you right there. 1623 01:37:39,174 --> 01:37:41,087 Here. 1624 01:37:41,170 --> 01:37:43,124 - Right here. - Yes. Okay. 1625 01:37:43,207 --> 01:37:44,788 See, you know Margo and I were the only two... 1626 01:37:44,871 --> 01:37:47,782 that could tell you to shut up. 1627 01:37:47,865 --> 01:37:52,148 Look, you need more people in your corner... 1628 01:37:52,231 --> 01:37:53,936 not less. 1629 01:37:54,019 --> 01:37:57,304 People that you can trust. 1630 01:37:57,387 --> 01:37:59,924 And the only way people trust each other... 1631 01:38:00,007 --> 01:38:02,169 is if they know each other. 1632 01:38:02,253 --> 01:38:04,872 And nobody knows you. 1633 01:38:04,956 --> 01:38:06,785 Nobody. 1634 01:38:06,868 --> 01:38:08,989 How did it feel... 1635 01:38:09,072 --> 01:38:11,858 when your mother was dying? 1636 01:38:11,942 --> 01:38:15,975 You were a doctor, a healer and you were helpless. 1637 01:38:16,058 --> 01:38:18,637 How did that feel? 1638 01:38:21,215 --> 01:38:23,128 You know, I failed her. 1639 01:38:23,211 --> 01:38:25,539 I failed my mother. 1640 01:38:27,244 --> 01:38:29,573 And? 1641 01:38:32,151 --> 01:38:34,771 She once said to me... 1642 01:38:34,854 --> 01:38:38,139 "Imagine, Jack... 1643 01:38:38,222 --> 01:38:43,212 the worst toothache in the world. 1644 01:38:43,296 --> 01:38:46,747 Now imagine that toothache... 1645 01:38:46,830 --> 01:38:49,824 being in every bone in your body." 1646 01:38:49,907 --> 01:38:51,987 That's... 1647 01:38:52,070 --> 01:38:55,480 That's what was happening to her. 1648 01:38:56,686 --> 01:39:02,050 She was my mother. I devoted my life to her. 1649 01:39:02,133 --> 01:39:04,753 So... 1650 01:39:08,121 --> 01:39:11,198 So how did you feel? 1651 01:39:20,471 --> 01:39:23,216 I remember... 1652 01:39:23,299 --> 01:39:25,836 I remember being in this little hospital room... 1653 01:39:25,919 --> 01:39:27,707 this cilly little room. 1654 01:39:27,790 --> 01:39:32,697 A lone window in the red brick wall. 1655 01:39:32,780 --> 01:39:35,400 That's what it faced... 1656 01:39:35,483 --> 01:39:39,641 And all these doctors circling around my mother... 1657 01:39:39,725 --> 01:39:43,134 trying to keep her alive. 1658 01:39:45,463 --> 01:39:47,709 And I was helpless. 1659 01:39:47,792 --> 01:39:49,663 I was powerless... 1660 01:39:49,746 --> 01:39:53,697 helpless and ineffectual. 1661 01:39:59,186 --> 01:40:01,806 And I felt... 1662 01:40:01,889 --> 01:40:04,342 lost. 1663 01:40:07,336 --> 01:40:10,496 I was lost. 1664 01:40:12,368 --> 01:40:15,861 That's how I felt. 1665 01:40:17,690 --> 01:40:20,144 Thanks, doc. 1666 01:40:23,886 --> 01:40:26,174 Thanks. 1667 01:40:32,078 --> 01:40:35,946 - Ray and the kids... - Yeah. 1668 01:40:43,888 --> 01:40:47,173 Give my love to Margo. 1669 01:40:50,916 --> 01:40:53,743 Yes. 1670 01:40:53,827 --> 01:40:55,947 Hey, guys. 1671 01:41:04,929 --> 01:41:07,632 Okay. 1672 01:41:57,533 --> 01:42:02,356 Your little band of Kevorkians is shrinking into nothing. 1673 01:42:07,596 --> 01:42:10,174 Jack! Dr. Kevorkian! 1674 01:42:10,257 --> 01:42:13,501 Dr. Kevorkian! Jack, over here! 1675 01:42:15,039 --> 01:42:16,328 I'm afraid for you. 1676 01:42:16,412 --> 01:42:21,485 You're not the best spokes-person for the cause, really. 1677 01:42:21,568 --> 01:42:24,978 We have to take this to the Supreme Court, Geoff. 1678 01:42:25,061 --> 01:42:27,598 Because I don't have forever. 1679 01:42:27,681 --> 01:42:30,176 Your little band of Kevorkians is shrinking into nothing. 1680 01:42:30,259 --> 01:42:31,881 Disappearing. 1681 01:42:31,964 --> 01:42:34,085 Dr. Kevorkian, a question! 1682 01:42:34,168 --> 01:42:37,120 Dr. Jack Kevorkian was among the who's who on hand... 1683 01:42:37,203 --> 01:42:40,239 to celebrate "Time Magazine's" 75th Anniversary Gala... 1684 01:42:40,322 --> 01:42:41,736 at Radio City Music Hall. 1685 01:42:41,819 --> 01:42:44,148 The big night was attended by many of the faces... 1686 01:42:44,231 --> 01:42:46,560 who have appeared on "Time's" covers over the decades. 1687 01:42:46,643 --> 01:42:49,180 You need more people in your corner. 1688 01:42:49,263 --> 01:42:50,385 I'm afraid for you. 1689 01:42:50,469 --> 01:42:52,423 Joe Dimaggio to Jerry Falwell. 1690 01:42:52,506 --> 01:42:54,502 To Raquel Welch to Henry Kissinger. 1691 01:42:54,585 --> 01:42:57,080 I'm afraid for you. 1692 01:42:57,995 --> 01:43:00,740 Your little band of Kevorkians is shrinking into nothing. 1693 01:43:00,823 --> 01:43:01,946 I don't have forever. 1694 01:43:02,029 --> 01:43:07,227 We have to take this to the Supreme Court, Geoff. 1695 01:43:11,385 --> 01:43:13,922 Jack, I'm dealing with the religious right. 1696 01:43:14,005 --> 01:43:15,252 My condolences. 1697 01:43:15,336 --> 01:43:16,375 And the disability group... 1698 01:43:16,458 --> 01:43:19,078 I mean they think you want to kill the whole lot of them. 1699 01:43:19,161 --> 01:43:21,740 So? What have we accomplished? 1700 01:43:21,823 --> 01:43:26,896 No law has been passed. I mean, this is the prelude. 1701 01:43:26,979 --> 01:43:29,890 This is the beginning. The Battle of Concord. 1702 01:43:29,973 --> 01:43:32,260 - The Battle of Lexington... - What are you thinking? 1703 01:43:32,343 --> 01:43:34,381 I'm thinking of the Supreme Court! 1704 01:43:34,464 --> 01:43:36,127 I'm thinking of going all the way. 1705 01:43:36,211 --> 01:43:39,121 If they want to silence me, let them prosecute me. 1706 01:43:39,205 --> 01:43:41,409 Convict me, send me to jail. 1707 01:43:41,492 --> 01:43:44,278 Like Martin Luther King, or Galileo, or... 1708 01:43:44,361 --> 01:43:45,900 The Supreme Court has already said... 1709 01:43:45,983 --> 01:43:48,020 that the states do have the right to outlaw doctor-assisted suicide! 1710 01:43:48,104 --> 01:43:50,515 See, you don't listen! 1711 01:43:50,599 --> 01:43:51,638 They also said... 1712 01:43:51,721 --> 01:43:54,549 that they would hear a case if the right one came along. 1713 01:43:54,632 --> 01:43:57,501 If it was for a particularly suffering individual... 1714 01:43:57,585 --> 01:43:59,373 they would hear it. 1715 01:43:59,456 --> 01:44:01,410 You don't listen. 1716 01:44:18,875 --> 01:44:20,663 "Okay, Tom. 1717 01:44:20,747 --> 01:44:25,570 So have you discussed your wishes with your wife and family?" 1718 01:44:25,654 --> 01:44:27,358 Do they want you to go on? 1719 01:44:27,442 --> 01:44:29,521 Yes. 1720 01:44:31,558 --> 01:44:34,428 They understand... 1721 01:44:34,511 --> 01:44:36,590 why. 1722 01:44:38,170 --> 01:44:42,661 It's my decision. 1723 01:44:42,744 --> 01:44:46,321 He's saying, "It's my decision." 1724 01:44:47,776 --> 01:44:50,396 Okay. 1725 01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:52,558 Now, Tom. 1726 01:44:52,641 --> 01:44:55,968 I will be administering direct lethal injection... 1727 01:44:56,051 --> 01:44:59,378 what's called "active euthanasia". 1728 01:44:59,461 --> 01:45:01,927 "You don't want to wait a month or so?" 1729 01:45:02,011 --> 01:45:03,850 "No, I do not." 1730 01:45:03,933 --> 01:45:07,611 "How about two weeks? Two weeks?" 1731 01:45:07,695 --> 01:45:09,534 "No." 1732 01:45:09,618 --> 01:45:14,383 "A week? Can you wait a week?" 1733 01:45:14,466 --> 01:45:17,935 - "Yeah." - "Okay." 1734 01:45:18,019 --> 01:45:19,900 "We'll stretch it out another week." 1735 01:45:19,983 --> 01:45:22,700 You're doing the deed yourself? 1736 01:45:22,784 --> 01:45:27,047 This is really crossing into uncharted territory. 1737 01:45:27,131 --> 01:45:30,349 Well, so I set sail. 1738 01:45:30,433 --> 01:45:33,776 Rudderless, I admit... 1739 01:45:33,860 --> 01:45:37,329 but that's the way it goes. 1740 01:45:37,413 --> 01:45:40,506 "This is going to allow me to do direct lethal injection." 1741 01:45:40,589 --> 01:45:43,014 I'm all alone, Neal. 1742 01:45:43,097 --> 01:45:45,939 And I'm running out of time. 1743 01:45:51,206 --> 01:45:54,675 That first day, 35 years ago. 1744 01:45:54,759 --> 01:45:57,058 You came down to the basement lab... 1745 01:45:57,141 --> 01:45:59,816 and talked to all us med techs. 1746 01:45:59,900 --> 01:46:01,697 You were the only doctor in our whole hospital... 1747 01:46:01,781 --> 01:46:05,960 we didn't think was a pompous son of a bitch. 1748 01:46:06,044 --> 01:46:08,343 Well, that was your first mistake. 1749 01:46:09,806 --> 01:46:12,773 I let you stick needles in me... 1750 01:46:12,857 --> 01:46:16,242 transfuse cadaver blood. 1751 01:46:16,326 --> 01:46:20,589 Shit, you weren't the only one that got hepatitis, Jack. 1752 01:46:20,673 --> 01:46:23,849 Hell, we have some good times. 1753 01:46:23,933 --> 01:46:27,193 You had purpose, Jack. 1754 01:46:27,277 --> 01:46:30,746 You had purpose and I guess I needed some too. 1755 01:46:32,125 --> 01:46:35,344 And I know that this is your decision. 1756 01:46:37,057 --> 01:46:39,816 But if you decide to pull the plug on somebody yourself... 1757 01:46:39,900 --> 01:46:43,620 you're going to be flying solo. 1758 01:46:56,284 --> 01:46:59,419 - Yes? - This is Melody Youk. 1759 01:46:59,502 --> 01:47:01,801 I'm sorry to call so late. 1760 01:47:01,885 --> 01:47:03,849 But it's Tom. 1761 01:47:03,933 --> 01:47:08,154 "He can't wait any longer. He's terrified." 1762 01:47:09,534 --> 01:47:12,919 Okay. I'm on my way. 1763 01:47:13,003 --> 01:47:15,385 Just say your goodbyes then, Melody... 1764 01:47:15,469 --> 01:47:18,186 because I don't want anyone to be there when I do this thing. 1765 01:47:18,269 --> 01:47:20,568 "I'm on my way." 1766 01:47:50,495 --> 01:47:53,212 - Jack. - Hey, Jack. 1767 01:47:53,295 --> 01:47:55,929 Look what I got. 1768 01:47:59,523 --> 01:48:01,529 I want a national debate on this... 1769 01:48:01,613 --> 01:48:04,372 because once that happens, they have to charge me. 1770 01:48:04,455 --> 01:48:07,172 - They have no choice, right? - With murder, maybe. 1771 01:48:07,256 --> 01:48:09,555 I want to put euthanasia on trial. 1772 01:48:09,638 --> 01:48:11,561 Let the people decide if it's murder or not. 1773 01:48:11,644 --> 01:48:12,898 You want to sacrifice yourself? 1774 01:48:12,982 --> 01:48:15,323 Because you'd go to prison for the rest of your life. 1775 01:48:15,406 --> 01:48:17,621 You know I know Barbara Walte. 1776 01:48:17,705 --> 01:48:19,502 She likes me... 1777 01:48:19,586 --> 01:48:21,927 but I want a bigger audience. 1778 01:48:22,010 --> 01:48:25,939 You know Mike Wallace, don't you? 1779 01:48:27,193 --> 01:48:29,868 No, I... yeah. 1780 01:48:29,952 --> 01:48:32,083 I mean if... 1781 01:48:32,167 --> 01:48:33,672 If you put him on the air... 1782 01:48:33,755 --> 01:48:35,970 will you be dealing with a rational human being? 1783 01:48:36,054 --> 01:48:40,443 Well, I can't promise rational with Kevorkian, Mike. 1784 01:48:40,526 --> 01:48:43,201 But if you're asking if he's sane... 1785 01:48:43,285 --> 01:48:45,375 I'd say yes. 1786 01:48:45,458 --> 01:48:48,593 He knows exactly what he's doing. 1787 01:48:50,349 --> 01:48:52,606 "Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has acknowledged... 1788 01:48:52,689 --> 01:48:55,490 helping more than 130 patients kill themselves... 1789 01:48:55,573 --> 01:48:57,162 tonight reveals that two months ago... 1790 01:48:57,245 --> 01:49:00,004 he killed one of his patients himself... 1791 01:49:00,087 --> 01:49:02,637 and recorded it on video tape. 1792 01:49:02,721 --> 01:49:04,601 Tom Youk led an active life. 1793 01:49:04,685 --> 01:49:07,444 He restored and raced vintage cars. 1794 01:49:07,527 --> 01:49:09,283 But two years ago at age 50... 1795 01:49:09,366 --> 01:49:11,791 he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease... 1796 01:49:11,874 --> 01:49:14,215 a devastating incurable illness... 1797 01:49:14,298 --> 01:49:16,096 that destroyed his muscles. 1798 01:49:16,179 --> 01:49:19,063 He lost the use of his legs and then his arms. 1799 01:49:19,147 --> 01:49:21,487 His family says he was in terrible pain... 1800 01:49:21,571 --> 01:49:23,745 had trouble breathing and swallowing... 1801 01:49:23,828 --> 01:49:26,336 and was choking on his own saliva." 1802 01:49:26,420 --> 01:49:27,590 "And we're ready to inject. 1803 01:49:27,673 --> 01:49:30,892 We're going to inject your right arm. Okay?" 1804 01:49:30,975 --> 01:49:33,232 "First the doctor gave him seconal... 1805 01:49:33,316 --> 01:49:35,448 to put him to sleep quickly." 1806 01:49:35,531 --> 01:49:40,254 "Sleepy, Tom? Tom, are you asleep? 1807 01:49:41,759 --> 01:49:44,769 Are you asleep? He's asleep." 1808 01:49:44,852 --> 01:49:47,402 "Then he injected a muscle relaxant... 1809 01:49:47,485 --> 01:49:49,492 to stop his breathing. 1810 01:49:49,575 --> 01:49:53,003 - And this?" - "Paralyzes the muscles." 1811 01:49:53,086 --> 01:49:57,433 - "But he's still alive." - "Well, he's still alive, but that's why. 1812 01:49:57,517 --> 01:50:01,028 Now you see, now this lack of oxygen is getting to him now. 1813 01:50:01,111 --> 01:50:03,703 But he's unconscious deeply, so it doesn't matter." 1814 01:50:03,786 --> 01:50:04,998 "Is he dead now?" 1815 01:50:05,082 --> 01:50:06,587 "He's dying now... 1816 01:50:06,670 --> 01:50:09,930 because his oxygen's cut off, he can't breath. 1817 01:50:10,014 --> 01:50:12,856 So I'll now quickly inject the potassium chloride... 1818 01:50:12,940 --> 01:50:15,448 to stop the heart. 1819 01:50:16,994 --> 01:50:19,502 Now there's a straight line." 1820 01:50:19,586 --> 01:50:22,344 - "He's dead." - "Yeah. The heart has stopped." 1821 01:50:22,428 --> 01:50:26,357 "I'm shocked that it's come to this, that in the 90s... 1822 01:50:26,440 --> 01:50:29,617 we have to make such an issue out of something... 1823 01:50:29,700 --> 01:50:34,256 a person should be in control of their own life and death." 1824 01:50:34,340 --> 01:50:36,555 "And those who say that... 1825 01:50:37,057 --> 01:50:41,613 Jack Kevorkian, Dr. Death, is a fanatic?" 1826 01:50:41,696 --> 01:50:43,285 "Zealot. 1827 01:50:43,368 --> 01:50:48,551 I'm fighting for me, Mike, for me. Because this is a right I want. 1828 01:50:48,635 --> 01:50:51,728 I might wind up being terribly suffering. 1829 01:50:51,811 --> 01:50:53,734 I'd like to know there's a colleague out there... 1830 01:50:53,817 --> 01:50:56,409 who will come to me in my time of need. 1831 01:50:56,492 --> 01:50:59,544 Now that might sound selfish, and maybe it is... 1832 01:50:59,627 --> 01:51:03,473 but if it helps everybody else, then so be it." 1833 01:51:09,115 --> 01:51:11,038 This whole thing's making me sick to my stomach. 1834 01:51:11,121 --> 01:51:15,845 Well, he admits on national TV that he's a killer. 1835 01:51:15,928 --> 01:51:18,143 50 million homes heard him say "Fuck you" to us. 1836 01:51:18,227 --> 01:51:21,780 I want that whole interview and I want him convicted. 1837 01:51:23,075 --> 01:51:24,538 Let's make it happen, John. 1838 01:51:24,622 --> 01:51:26,628 He's gone too far. 1839 01:51:29,136 --> 01:51:31,936 I'm going to represent myself. 1840 01:51:32,020 --> 01:51:34,528 What, you're firing me? 1841 01:51:34,611 --> 01:51:38,708 Finally I get to say what I want to say. 1842 01:51:38,791 --> 01:51:41,132 No lawyer, not even you... 1843 01:51:41,215 --> 01:51:44,894 can address a jury the way I can. 1844 01:51:44,977 --> 01:51:48,279 Skedaddle! 1845 01:51:48,363 --> 01:51:49,700 Migrate, will you? 1846 01:51:49,784 --> 01:51:52,375 Jack, you don't know shit about law. 1847 01:51:52,459 --> 01:51:53,922 Okay? They'll hurt you. 1848 01:51:54,005 --> 01:51:56,053 No, I'm going to hurt them. 1849 01:51:56,137 --> 01:51:59,648 Because if I lose, I hurt them. If I win, I hurt them. 1850 01:51:59,732 --> 01:52:00,860 Well, you're lucky you're in Michigan... 1851 01:52:00,944 --> 01:52:03,368 because if you were in some other state, they'd fry your ass. 1852 01:52:03,452 --> 01:52:06,586 Here they'll just toss you in a cell and throw away the key forever. 1853 01:52:06,670 --> 01:52:08,593 - This is not a game. - No, it's a game. 1854 01:52:08,676 --> 01:52:11,602 It's a game that if I lose, I win. 1855 01:52:11,686 --> 01:52:14,277 Because I go to the Supreme Court. 1856 01:52:14,361 --> 01:52:17,579 I get this debate in front of the people where it belongs. 1857 01:52:17,663 --> 01:52:18,916 That's an assumption. 1858 01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:20,547 - What if you're wrong? - Never been wrong. 1859 01:52:20,630 --> 01:52:22,177 Are you willing to set back the legalization... 1860 01:52:22,260 --> 01:52:25,270 of assisted suicide for God knows how long? 1861 01:52:25,353 --> 01:52:28,195 - Migrate, will you? - Jack, would you forget the geese? 1862 01:52:28,279 --> 01:52:31,079 Migrate! Look at you, hiding behind the boat. 1863 01:52:32,793 --> 01:52:34,925 You know, I never minded feeding them... 1864 01:52:35,008 --> 01:52:38,394 but look at this. All over there's poop! 1865 01:52:38,478 --> 01:52:41,529 Watch where you're stepping. Look at this. 1866 01:52:44,455 --> 01:52:46,043 Geoff. 1867 01:52:46,126 --> 01:52:49,596 - Yeah? - Your problem... 1868 01:52:50,641 --> 01:52:51,936 You don't see the big picture. 1869 01:52:52,020 --> 01:52:54,987 My problem is that you're a stubborn fool. 1870 01:52:55,071 --> 01:52:56,116 For a brilliant man... 1871 01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:58,122 you show an alarming lack of judgment when it counts the most. 1872 01:52:58,206 --> 01:53:01,926 I don't care what happens to me. 1873 01:53:02,009 --> 01:53:05,813 And I'm not afraid because I'm right. 1874 01:53:10,996 --> 01:53:13,336 Thank you very much! 1875 01:53:13,420 --> 01:53:15,935 "A grateful John Engler enjoys the thrill of his victory... 1876 01:53:16,012 --> 01:53:18,062 for a third term as Michigan's Governor. 1877 01:53:18,140 --> 01:53:20,267 He trounced his Democratic opponent." 1878 01:53:20,345 --> 01:53:23,053 "Geoffrey Fieger has to feel somewhat humiliated today. 1879 01:53:23,130 --> 01:53:25,096 This is a man who is not used to losing. 1880 01:53:25,180 --> 01:53:27,355 Not used to losing the big one, certainly. 1881 01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:31,079 And The Voters of Michigan have pretty resoundingly said... 1882 01:53:31,162 --> 01:53:34,174 'Geoffrey, we might hire you if we had a legal case... 1883 01:53:34,258 --> 01:53:37,856 but we don't want you to be our Governor.'" 1884 01:53:37,939 --> 01:53:40,784 Death is not welcome here! 1885 01:53:40,868 --> 01:53:42,750 Pre-trial hearings get underway today... 1886 01:53:42,834 --> 01:53:46,181 on the people of the state of Michigan versus Jack Kevorkian. 1887 01:53:46,265 --> 01:53:48,398 Now this is following that controversial broadcast... 1888 01:53:48,482 --> 01:53:51,494 of the videotape showing Dr. Jack Kevorkian... 1889 01:53:51,578 --> 01:53:54,339 giving a fatal dose of chemicals to Thomas Youk... 1890 01:53:54,422 --> 01:53:56,932 on the news program "60 Minutes". 1891 01:53:57,016 --> 01:53:59,233 A wide array of protest groups have amassed... 1892 01:53:59,317 --> 01:54:01,032 here outside the Oakland County Court house... 1893 01:54:01,116 --> 01:54:04,421 contentiously voicing both their opposition and support. 1894 01:54:04,504 --> 01:54:07,558 One way or another, this is Dr. Jack Kevorkian's fifth trial... 1895 01:54:07,642 --> 01:54:10,654 and it very well may be his last. 1896 01:54:12,997 --> 01:54:15,340 I've looked at all the motions, Gentlemen. 1897 01:54:15,423 --> 01:54:17,724 Mr. Gorosh, I'm denying your motions... 1898 01:54:17,808 --> 01:54:20,904 to quash all the charges against Dr. Kevorkian. 1899 01:54:20,987 --> 01:54:23,539 There is no basis to dismiss. 1900 01:54:23,623 --> 01:54:25,338 But I do think there is an argument here... 1901 01:54:25,422 --> 01:54:27,639 that murder and assisted suicide are... 1902 01:54:27,723 --> 01:54:29,647 incompatible charges by definition. 1903 01:54:29,731 --> 01:54:33,956 Well, that may be something to be debated in a law school class. 1904 01:54:34,040 --> 01:54:36,006 But not in my courtroom. 1905 01:54:36,089 --> 01:54:38,683 And, Mr. Skrzynski, I'm granting your motion... 1906 01:54:38,767 --> 01:54:40,859 to limit testimony on the murder charge... 1907 01:54:40,942 --> 01:54:42,867 but not on assisted suicide. 1908 01:54:42,950 --> 01:54:45,377 A person's pain and suffering is very relevant... 1909 01:54:45,460 --> 01:54:48,849 when defending an assisted suicide charge. 1910 01:54:48,933 --> 01:54:50,857 The trial starts in five days. 1911 01:54:50,941 --> 01:54:53,827 Okay, thank you. 1912 01:54:56,128 --> 01:54:59,140 It just occurred to me. 1913 01:54:59,224 --> 01:55:03,491 Why don't we drop the assisted suicide charge all together? 1914 01:55:05,081 --> 01:55:07,507 What are you saying? 1915 01:55:07,591 --> 01:55:10,645 I'm saying that what proved lethal... 1916 01:55:10,728 --> 01:55:13,280 in all our other cases was... 1917 01:55:13,364 --> 01:55:15,372 the family members testifying... 1918 01:55:15,456 --> 01:55:18,886 juries hearing about the conditions of the victims. 1919 01:55:18,970 --> 01:55:20,894 How much pain they were in. 1920 01:55:20,978 --> 01:55:23,404 And all that bullshit. 1921 01:55:23,488 --> 01:55:26,165 So if we drop the charge, make it all or nothing on murder... 1922 01:55:26,249 --> 01:55:29,512 the widow, the brother... 1923 01:55:29,596 --> 01:55:31,604 They won't get to testify. 1924 01:55:31,688 --> 01:55:33,863 Precisely. 1925 01:55:33,947 --> 01:55:37,963 Just take all that sympathy out of the courtroom. 1926 01:55:45,660 --> 01:55:47,459 Do you understand, Dr. Kevorkian... 1927 01:55:47,543 --> 01:55:49,760 that you are charged with first-degree murder... 1928 01:55:49,844 --> 01:55:52,396 and delivery of a controlled substance... 1929 01:55:52,479 --> 01:55:54,697 and that the assisted suicide charge... 1930 01:55:54,780 --> 01:55:56,705 has been dropped? 1931 01:55:56,788 --> 01:55:58,713 I do. Yes. 1932 01:55:58,796 --> 01:55:59,842 You understand that... 1933 01:55:59,926 --> 01:56:02,813 you could spend the rest of your life in prison? 1934 01:56:04,570 --> 01:56:07,707 Whatever is left of it, sure. 1935 01:56:08,795 --> 01:56:10,217 You understand what prison is? 1936 01:56:10,301 --> 01:56:14,192 Did you see "The Shawshank Redemption", sir? 1937 01:56:14,275 --> 01:56:15,949 No. 1938 01:56:16,032 --> 01:56:19,839 Do you understand you may not disrupt or inconvenience the court... 1939 01:56:19,923 --> 01:56:23,186 in any way, shape or form? 1940 01:56:23,270 --> 01:56:27,830 I will act like the guest that I am. 1941 01:56:27,913 --> 01:56:30,130 You're no guest. You're the defendant. 1942 01:56:30,214 --> 01:56:31,260 "What do you think of... 1943 01:56:31,344 --> 01:56:34,774 Dr. Jack Kevorkian actually helping people kill themselves?" 1944 01:56:34,858 --> 01:56:36,447 "Well, my grandma's very sick... 1945 01:56:36,531 --> 01:56:38,581 and everyday she asks me... 1946 01:56:38,665 --> 01:56:39,878 'Bring me Jack Kevorkian.'" 1947 01:56:39,962 --> 01:56:42,597 "Doctors are supposed to uphold the hippocratic oath though... 1948 01:56:42,681 --> 01:56:43,727 save lives." 1949 01:56:43,810 --> 01:56:45,358 "Some people are dying... 1950 01:56:45,442 --> 01:56:48,370 and they should be dying gracefully with dignity and honor. 1951 01:56:48,454 --> 01:56:50,127 But I don't think we ought to put them out to pasture this way." 1952 01:56:50,211 --> 01:56:51,257 "I think he rocks. 1953 01:56:51,341 --> 01:56:52,679 He gives people a choice... 1954 01:56:52,763 --> 01:56:55,148 of whether or not they want to suffer... 1955 01:56:55,231 --> 01:56:56,570 throughout terminal illnesses or not." 1956 01:56:56,654 --> 01:56:57,699 "Dr. Jack Kevorkian is... 1957 01:56:57,783 --> 01:56:59,415 one of the most audacious serial killers... 1958 01:56:59,498 --> 01:57:00,670 this country has ever known." 1959 01:57:00,753 --> 01:57:02,971 "Let's say your mother wanted his help... 1960 01:57:03,054 --> 01:57:04,518 wanted to kill herself. 1961 01:57:04,602 --> 01:57:06,234 What would you think of that?" 1962 01:57:06,317 --> 01:57:08,033 "Well, if she was mentally competent... 1963 01:57:08,116 --> 01:57:10,166 I would ask her what she wanted... 1964 01:57:10,250 --> 01:57:11,840 and support her." 1965 01:57:11,923 --> 01:57:13,555 "The names of dozens of other people... 1966 01:57:13,638 --> 01:57:15,772 who have died with the help of Jack Kevorkian... 1967 01:57:15,856 --> 01:57:18,198 laid out on the courthouse lawn to make a point." 1968 01:57:18,282 --> 01:57:19,328 "Conviction is important... 1969 01:57:19,412 --> 01:57:21,043 because Jack Kevorkian is... 1970 01:57:21,127 --> 01:57:23,344 the most public symbol of the euthanasia movement... 1971 01:57:23,428 --> 01:57:24,474 and we need to stop him." 1972 01:57:24,557 --> 01:57:26,523 Please tell us, Dr. Dragovic... 1973 01:57:26,607 --> 01:57:29,494 did Mr. Youk's ALS contribute to his death at all? 1974 01:57:29,577 --> 01:57:31,418 - "No." - "Then how did he die?" 1975 01:57:31,502 --> 01:57:36,438 "He was poisoned by intravenously injected substances." 1976 01:57:36,522 --> 01:57:38,906 "Is homicide always murder, doctor?" 1977 01:57:38,990 --> 01:57:41,375 - "No, sir." - "When is it not murder?" 1978 01:57:41,458 --> 01:57:43,299 "Objection. That's a legal question." 1979 01:57:43,383 --> 01:57:47,022 "Sir, you may question him in regard to his autopsy report... 1980 01:57:47,106 --> 01:57:49,156 but nothing further that's legal." 1981 01:57:49,240 --> 01:57:50,285 "But why? Look, I..." 1982 01:57:50,369 --> 01:57:54,260 "If you had consulted your attorney, he'd tell you why." 1983 01:57:57,523 --> 01:57:58,945 Okay. 1984 01:57:59,029 --> 01:58:03,003 - Is euthanasia always murder? - Objection. 1985 01:58:04,300 --> 01:58:06,517 Always homicide? 1986 01:58:06,601 --> 01:58:09,990 - Yes, sir. - Yes, it's always homicide. 1987 01:58:10,073 --> 01:58:11,203 And you stated... 1988 01:58:11,286 --> 01:58:16,516 that homicide is not necessarily always murder. 1989 01:58:16,599 --> 01:58:18,649 Therefore... 1990 01:58:19,863 --> 01:58:20,992 out of pure logic... 1991 01:58:21,076 --> 01:58:24,799 wouldn't you say that euthanasia is not always murder? 1992 01:58:24,883 --> 01:58:26,891 Objection. Calls for a legal conclusion. 1993 01:58:26,974 --> 01:58:29,401 No, it calls for simple logic. 1994 01:58:29,484 --> 01:58:32,748 It's a syllogism. 1995 01:58:32,831 --> 01:58:34,170 It calls for nothing but syllogism. 1996 01:58:34,254 --> 01:58:37,266 Again, you're asking him to make a legal conclusion. 1997 01:58:37,349 --> 01:58:39,818 No, but this is a mathematical conclusion. 1998 01:58:39,901 --> 01:58:41,868 It's simple arithmetic. 1999 01:58:41,951 --> 01:58:43,374 I don't know shit about the law either... 2000 01:58:43,457 --> 01:58:45,758 But I know when I'm watching a train wreck. 2001 01:58:45,842 --> 01:58:48,436 Yeah, well, I told him Gorosh is a putz. 2002 01:58:48,519 --> 01:58:50,402 "It can't possibly be a fair fight." 2003 01:58:50,485 --> 01:58:54,627 You got to do something, Geoff. Anything. 2004 01:58:57,179 --> 01:58:58,643 Dr. Kevorkian. 2005 01:58:58,727 --> 01:59:03,078 Tom's brother's flight from France got delayed... 2006 01:59:03,161 --> 01:59:05,128 but he will be here soon. 2007 01:59:05,211 --> 01:59:06,550 Okay, don't worry. 2008 01:59:06,634 --> 01:59:10,064 We're going to get you both on the stand to testify. 2009 01:59:10,148 --> 01:59:13,076 I know you want to call Melody Youk as your first witness... 2010 01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:16,046 but what is it that she's going to testify to? 2011 01:59:16,130 --> 01:59:19,728 Well, she's going to testify about my intent. 2012 01:59:19,811 --> 01:59:22,907 What she observed and our discussions... 2013 01:59:22,991 --> 01:59:25,794 Dr. Kevorkian, that has no relevance here. 2014 01:59:25,877 --> 01:59:29,057 I assumed your counsel would've advised you about this... 2015 01:59:29,141 --> 01:59:32,404 that once the assisted suicide charge was dropped... 2016 01:59:32,487 --> 01:59:34,830 you could no longer put these witnesses before the jury. 2017 01:59:34,914 --> 01:59:37,298 Yeah, but I'm talking about what went on... 2018 01:59:37,382 --> 01:59:38,721 You know, as to my intent. 2019 01:59:38,804 --> 01:59:41,482 Your feeling compelled to help Mr. Youk... 2020 01:59:41,565 --> 01:59:43,406 is not a legal defense. 2021 01:59:43,490 --> 01:59:45,916 And you're already aware that a person's condition... 2022 01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:47,297 has no bearing in a murder case. 2023 01:59:47,380 --> 01:59:49,932 But that I didn't kill her husband, you see. 2024 01:59:50,016 --> 01:59:52,223 - This is relevant. - Okay. 2025 01:59:52,306 --> 01:59:55,512 We'll make a special record outside the presence of the jury. 2026 01:59:55,595 --> 01:59:57,843 I will rule on that. 2027 01:59:57,926 --> 01:59:59,508 - Okay. - All right? 2028 01:59:59,592 --> 02:00:01,965 - Thank you. - Thank you. 2029 02:00:02,048 --> 02:00:06,336 Melody, did you tell me it was your intention... 2030 02:00:06,419 --> 02:00:09,792 or Tom's intention that I kill him? 2031 02:00:09,875 --> 02:00:13,206 No. That was not our intent. 2032 02:00:13,289 --> 02:00:15,662 And when I met you, I felt it was not your intent. 2033 02:00:15,745 --> 02:00:19,492 It was never your intent or our intent that Tom... 2034 02:00:19,575 --> 02:00:21,033 There it is. You see? 2035 02:00:21,116 --> 02:00:25,279 Other than released from suffering. 2036 02:00:25,362 --> 02:00:27,985 So the word "kill", did it ever crop up? 2037 02:00:28,069 --> 02:00:30,941 - Or "murder"? - No. 2038 02:00:31,025 --> 02:00:32,607 Ugly words. 2039 02:00:32,690 --> 02:00:36,104 Ugly words. 2040 02:00:40,059 --> 02:00:43,431 You're talking about mercy killing. 2041 02:00:43,514 --> 02:00:45,513 And her statements can't show... 2042 02:00:45,596 --> 02:00:48,594 your state of mind. They only show hers. 2043 02:00:48,677 --> 02:00:51,716 Therefore, I cannot allow her to testify before the jury. 2044 02:00:51,799 --> 02:00:53,257 But wait. I want to say something... 2045 02:00:53,340 --> 02:00:55,463 That I have so much I want to say. 2046 02:00:55,546 --> 02:01:00,376 I have been waiting for four goddamn months for this opportunity! 2047 02:01:00,459 --> 02:01:02,291 You may call it mercy killing. 2048 02:01:02,374 --> 02:01:04,081 I call it something else. 2049 02:01:04,164 --> 02:01:05,996 I call it a medical service... 2050 02:01:06,080 --> 02:01:09,202 for an agonized, incurably suffering patient. 2051 02:01:09,285 --> 02:01:10,368 That's what I call it. All right? 2052 02:01:10,451 --> 02:01:13,407 Why don't, what difference does it make what you call it? 2053 02:01:13,490 --> 02:01:16,488 When you have these fine stipulations of law... 2054 02:01:16,571 --> 02:01:19,569 standing in the way of a dedicated physician... 2055 02:01:19,652 --> 02:01:21,317 and I am a dedicated physician. 2056 02:01:21,400 --> 02:01:24,939 I mean, my integrity would be destroyed... 2057 02:01:25,023 --> 02:01:27,604 if I turned my back on that patient. 2058 02:01:27,687 --> 02:01:29,894 I would rather be dead. 2059 02:01:29,977 --> 02:01:31,434 It's far worse. 2060 02:01:31,517 --> 02:01:34,515 You could take my life. It would be worse. 2061 02:01:34,598 --> 02:01:37,929 This was a service. 2062 02:01:38,012 --> 02:01:40,926 It had nothing to do with "kill" or "murder"... 2063 02:01:41,010 --> 02:01:42,342 or... it was a service. 2064 02:01:42,425 --> 02:01:45,131 It was a medical service that was being done. 2065 02:01:45,215 --> 02:01:47,005 I can't be clearer. 2066 02:01:47,088 --> 02:01:49,961 I can't be clearer than that, Your Honor. 2067 02:01:52,875 --> 02:01:58,787 I see the emotion, I understand it, but it's not relevant. 2068 02:01:59,953 --> 02:02:03,658 Please step down, Mrs. Youk. 2069 02:02:07,905 --> 02:02:10,194 "Jessica Cooper has already ruled... 2070 02:02:10,278 --> 02:02:13,692 that Dr. Kevorkian's side can't put into evidence... 2071 02:02:13,775 --> 02:02:15,690 that there was suffering here by the victim." 2072 02:02:15,773 --> 02:02:16,814 "Does that make any sense?" 2073 02:02:16,897 --> 02:02:18,854 "No, because I think it's an improper ruling... 2074 02:02:18,937 --> 02:02:20,811 both in terms of... 2075 02:02:20,894 --> 02:02:23,975 the nature of this trial and criminal defenses in general. 2076 02:02:24,058 --> 02:02:26,764 You're entitled to put forward any plausible defense... 2077 02:02:26,848 --> 02:02:28,888 to explain the context of your act... 2078 02:02:28,971 --> 02:02:32,218 and she's already limited him from doing that." 2079 02:02:32,301 --> 02:02:34,092 It's like watching a man hang himself. 2080 02:02:34,175 --> 02:02:35,674 I've been watching the television. 2081 02:02:35,757 --> 02:02:37,464 Once you knew they were dropping the assisted suicide charge... 2082 02:02:37,547 --> 02:02:40,045 - what was your plan? - He doesn't let me help him. 2083 02:02:40,128 --> 02:02:41,627 - Hey, what am I supposed to do? - You're supposed to do? 2084 02:02:41,711 --> 02:02:43,376 Get creative, that's what you're supposed to do. 2085 02:02:43,459 --> 02:02:45,541 Why didn't you argue that Youk's wife and brother... 2086 02:02:45,624 --> 02:02:47,081 were eyewitnesses to the event... 2087 02:02:47,164 --> 02:02:48,996 that the prosecutor's calling a murder? 2088 02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,494 Then Judge Cooper would've had to have let them testify. 2089 02:02:51,578 --> 02:02:53,618 But that window's closed now. 2090 02:02:53,701 --> 02:02:56,032 Did you ever pass the fucking bar exam? 2091 02:02:59,654 --> 02:03:01,944 Dave. 2092 02:03:05,733 --> 02:03:08,272 "There are those who would say about Dr. Jack Kevorkian... 2093 02:03:08,356 --> 02:03:10,188 right message, wrong messenger." 2094 02:03:10,271 --> 02:03:12,810 "And who is the right messenger?" 2095 02:03:16,183 --> 02:03:18,722 Now I'm confused about this, Dr. Kevorkian. 2096 02:03:18,806 --> 02:03:21,345 You said you had another witness. 2097 02:03:21,428 --> 02:03:23,926 I'm not allowing his testimony... 2098 02:03:24,010 --> 02:03:27,424 on the same grounds I didn't allow Mrs. Youk's. 2099 02:03:27,507 --> 02:03:31,670 I'm sorry you flew all this way, Mr. Youk. 2100 02:03:33,460 --> 02:03:34,918 Would you like to take the stand... 2101 02:03:35,001 --> 02:03:38,331 in your own defense, Dr. Kevorkian? 2102 02:03:54,527 --> 02:03:57,524 I'm sorry. 2103 02:03:57,608 --> 02:04:00,522 Sir, would you like to take the stand in your own defense? 2104 02:04:00,605 --> 02:04:02,562 Oh, I heard you. 2105 02:04:02,645 --> 02:04:04,644 I did. 2106 02:04:19,090 --> 02:04:20,797 You know, I don't lie... 2107 02:04:20,880 --> 02:04:25,668 and I don't exaggerate. 2108 02:04:27,209 --> 02:04:29,790 And... 2109 02:04:31,538 --> 02:04:34,952 you know, you never said why. 2110 02:04:35,036 --> 02:04:37,700 You accuse me of these heinous things... 2111 02:04:37,783 --> 02:04:41,405 but you never said why. Did you? 2112 02:04:41,489 --> 02:04:43,737 No, just saying. I'm just saying. 2113 02:04:43,820 --> 02:04:46,027 You know, just so you know. 2114 02:04:46,110 --> 02:04:49,357 Sir, let's keep to the relevance here. 2115 02:04:49,441 --> 02:04:51,814 Oh, this is... it's not relevant? 2116 02:04:51,897 --> 02:04:53,854 I guess it's not. 2117 02:04:53,937 --> 02:04:56,518 It's not relevant. 2118 02:04:59,557 --> 02:05:01,223 I will ask you again. 2119 02:05:01,306 --> 02:05:05,719 Would you like to take the stand in your own defense, sir? 2120 02:05:18,292 --> 02:05:20,707 It's now or never. 2121 02:05:20,790 --> 02:05:23,413 Never. 2122 02:05:24,995 --> 02:05:28,118 No. 2123 02:05:29,533 --> 02:05:31,865 The defense... 2124 02:05:31,948 --> 02:05:34,279 rests. 2125 02:05:36,902 --> 02:05:39,817 Not since Ruby killed Oswald... 2126 02:05:39,900 --> 02:05:43,272 did we see a murder on television. 2127 02:05:43,355 --> 02:05:47,019 Jack Kevorkian came like a hit man in the night... 2128 02:05:47,102 --> 02:05:51,016 with a bag of poison to do his job. 2129 02:05:51,099 --> 02:05:54,013 What would happen if he got his way... 2130 02:05:54,097 --> 02:05:56,511 and made the state policy euthanasia? 2131 02:05:56,595 --> 02:05:58,760 What could go wrong? 2132 02:05:58,843 --> 02:06:02,756 Well, there are 11 million souls buried in Europe... 2133 02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:05,962 that can tell you that when you make euthanasia a state policy. 2134 02:06:06,045 --> 02:06:07,960 Some catastrophic things can evolve... 2135 02:06:08,044 --> 02:06:09,501 - from opening up that box. - How dare you? 2136 02:06:09,584 --> 02:06:10,875 - How dare you... - Dr. Kevorkian! 2137 02:06:10,958 --> 02:06:13,872 Compare euthanasia with the genocide? 2138 02:06:13,956 --> 02:06:16,870 - How dare you! - You have crossed the line! 2139 02:06:16,953 --> 02:06:21,075 - Where is your decency and respect? - Order in the court. 2140 02:06:22,990 --> 02:06:25,904 We will take a brief recess. 2141 02:06:33,773 --> 02:06:37,728 Do you see a criminal? 2142 02:06:37,811 --> 02:06:40,518 Do you see a murderer? 2143 02:06:40,601 --> 02:06:42,058 If you do... 2144 02:06:42,141 --> 02:06:45,305 then you must convict. 2145 02:06:46,887 --> 02:06:52,383 And then take the harsh judgment of history. 2146 02:06:52,466 --> 02:06:56,754 And the even harsher judgment of your children. 2147 02:06:56,838 --> 02:06:59,544 And their children if they should ever come... 2148 02:06:59,627 --> 02:07:04,831 to need this choice in their lives. 2149 02:07:04,914 --> 02:07:08,786 I just ask you to think about that. 2150 02:07:20,069 --> 02:07:24,024 Guilty of the lesser charge of second-degree murder. 2151 02:07:26,106 --> 02:07:30,311 And with regard to count two, what is your verdict? 2152 02:07:30,394 --> 02:07:34,599 "Guilty of delivery of a controlled substance." 2153 02:07:39,595 --> 02:07:42,717 He's out of time. Yes. 2154 02:07:44,383 --> 02:07:47,838 "You invited yourself here to make a final stand. 2155 02:07:47,921 --> 02:07:51,169 You invited yourself to the wrong forum." 2156 02:07:51,252 --> 02:07:53,792 Our nation tolerates differences of opinions... 2157 02:07:53,875 --> 02:07:56,623 because we have a civilized and non-violent way... 2158 02:07:56,706 --> 02:07:58,663 of resolving our conflicts. 2159 02:07:58,746 --> 02:08:00,744 We have the means and methods... 2160 02:08:00,828 --> 02:08:04,033 to protest laws with which we disagree. 2161 02:08:04,117 --> 02:08:05,865 You can criticize the law. 2162 02:08:05,948 --> 02:08:07,572 Lecture about the law. 2163 02:08:07,655 --> 02:08:10,944 Speak to the media or petition voters... 2164 02:08:11,028 --> 02:08:14,858 but you must always stay within the limits provided by the law. 2165 02:08:14,941 --> 02:08:16,607 You may not break the law... 2166 02:08:16,690 --> 02:08:20,478 or take the law into your own hands. 2167 02:08:20,562 --> 02:08:22,477 No one's unmindful... 2168 02:08:22,560 --> 02:08:25,183 of the controversy and emotion that exists... 2169 02:08:25,266 --> 02:08:28,555 over end-of-life issues and pain control. 2170 02:08:28,638 --> 02:08:30,762 I assume the debate will continue... 2171 02:08:30,845 --> 02:08:34,051 in a calm and reasoned forum long after this trial... 2172 02:08:34,134 --> 02:08:38,339 and your activities have faded from the public memory. 2173 02:08:38,422 --> 02:08:41,087 But this trial was not about that controversy. 2174 02:08:41,170 --> 02:08:44,959 This trial was about you, sir. 2175 02:08:45,042 --> 02:08:46,666 You've ignored and challenged... 2176 02:08:46,749 --> 02:08:49,288 The Legislature and The Supreme Court. 2177 02:08:49,372 --> 02:08:52,910 Moreover, you've defied your own medical profession. 2178 02:08:52,994 --> 02:08:55,533 This trial was about lawlessness... 2179 02:08:55,617 --> 02:08:58,198 about your disregard for a society... 2180 02:08:58,281 --> 02:08:59,988 that exists and flourishes... 2181 02:09:00,071 --> 02:09:03,235 because of the strength of our legal system. 2182 02:09:03,319 --> 02:09:06,566 No one is above the law. 2183 02:09:07,898 --> 02:09:11,229 You had the audacity to go on national television... 2184 02:09:11,312 --> 02:09:12,978 show the world what you did... 2185 02:09:13,061 --> 02:09:16,142 and dare the legal system to stop you. 2186 02:09:16,225 --> 02:09:19,014 You publicly and repeatedly announced your intentions... 2187 02:09:19,098 --> 02:09:21,679 to disregard the laws of Michigan. 2188 02:09:21,762 --> 02:09:23,969 Because of this, I am imposing... 2189 02:09:24,052 --> 02:09:27,674 the maximum sentence of 10 to 25 years. 2190 02:09:27,757 --> 02:09:32,670 You may now, sir, consider yourself stopped. 2191 02:09:32,753 --> 02:09:35,085 Yeah, doc! 2192 02:09:35,168 --> 02:09:38,166 You the man, Jack! You the man! 2193 02:09:42,246 --> 02:09:45,035 Hey, Jack! 2194 02:09:47,142 --> 02:09:55,468 Translator: FRESTO