Dr. Jack Kevorkian has something to say about Michael Jackson’s death and it’s a bit of a surprising perspective: He doesn’t think Dr. Conrad Murray is to blame.
In a lengthy interview — you’ll want to fast forward to 9:30 — the good doctor states that Michael cannot have been murdered since he doesn’t believe malice was a component of the chain of events. “I don’t think he was malicious. Murder is defined as malice or forethought… Did the doctor have forethought? I doubt it.”
Dr. Kevorkian also thinks that Michael bears responsibility for his death. “Maybe Jackson craved these things so much he pestered the doctor until he got it. The patient got what he wanted. He is the one who said yes or no to take a drug.” Does this mean I can go to my physician and pester him to overdose me with Xanax? Because I really need to do that.
I’ve actually been thinking about this since the death of DJ AM. Maybe drug addicts are on some sort of suicide mission. Maybe death is what Michael was chasing. I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure.
MJ was a freak. F-R-E-A-K. Even if he pestered his doctor, this little thing called the hipocratic oath should have prevented him from administering drugs to him UNTIL HE DIED FROM IT. Seriously. Moron, what a lame excuse. I believe that you want to die when you call Dr. Death, but not your Dr. Doctor. Put Michael’s pedo-asss in the ground so that he can rot in pieces and fry the dude who brought him to his end. Same for Dr. Klein. End rant. :)
Hypocratic, einstein.
Hippocratic. As in Hippocrates.
He was a freak, just like everybody else – incuding you, Jacq, from what I just read.
Some people don’t have time to wait around and just put a gun to their head and others choose to die slowly, a little at a time, starting around 1992.
Not sure I agree with Kevorkian except that he’s right in saying that, if death wasn’t intentional, it wasn’t murder.
I suspect it was more of an involuntar manslaughter type of situation and that’s what it will be knocked down to in court. if he is ever prosecuted.
as to addicts being on some sort of a suicide mission, I have to disagree to some extent. most aren’t. usually it’s merely apathy that we feel (I say “we” because I’m a recovering addict). death is usually the farthest thing from our minds when we are chasing a high or some relief from our reality. unfortunately, our apathy sometimes leads to carelessness and we end up going too far.