Comments:Assisted-suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83

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Comments from feedback form - "I'm curious to see how this af..."

I'm curious to see how this affects the broader assisted-suicide movement Ragettho (talk) 05:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

It is too bad the article was not more complete in explaining the context of Kevorkian's actions. It was a complex situation that is not conveyed in the article. Mattisse (talk) 23:53, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I certainly would've welcomed a more in-depth article too.

That's where prepped obits should be useful. Due to license differences, they'd need written independent of relevant Wikipedia articles (they can import from us, we can't do the reverse). Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:34, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

An interesting idea... news organizations prepare obits all the time, so I don't see why we shouldn't. Though we should be a bit careful about writing them, since our content is open to the public. It's such a bummer that we can't copy from Wikipedia, though. Ragettho (talk) 21:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Seems like I remember a prepared Wikinews obit a while ago that turned out, after the person actually died, to be an unsourced copyvio of Wikipedia, and sorting that out took long enough that we ended up with no obit for the person at all — we might have done better (and couldn't have done worse) without a prepared obit. --Pi zero (talk) 21:21, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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Hei :) 91.90.66.128 (talk) 09:22, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

"...was controversial..."

"The concept of a doctor assiting suicide was controversial within the US at the time and he was known as "Dr Death"."

I believe it still is highly controversial. Maybe the word 'particularly' in front of 'controversial' would better describe the atmosphere in the U.S. of the time. Also, 'assisting' is missing an 's' in the article. Bobjoesmithers (talk) 14:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

You're right! It is still highly controversial. Only three states out of fifty allow physician assisted suicides, and those three states have many restrictions, provisions, requirements and safeguards before it is allowed. For example, in Oregon the medication must be self-administered in the presence of a physician. Mattisse (talk) 14:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

As an outsider, I'm not at all surprised it is controversial. The problem is keeping within what the sources say; they don't really talk about the present situation. The information would need sourced and the deadline for additions to the article is almost here.

As for the typo, I'll go deal with that. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 14:55, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

The info was there in other news articles. The sources chosen were not the best nor the most complete. Mattisse (talk) 21:54, 6 June 2011 (UTC)