PCC News Monthly February 2016 | Page 10

The Legality Conundrum W e fallible humans are too often greedy creatures in need of leaders to monitor our behavior. Paradoxically, Larry Wonderling however, our leaders are also fallible. Who monitors them? Oh, that’s right. Laws regulate their behavior. However, don’t we imperfect humans make the laws? Remember Dr. Kevorkian? He was finally convicted of 2nd degree murder when he openly videotaped euthanizing a young man, dying of ALS disease, who was so paralyzed he couldn’t pull the lever to euthanize himself. Kevorkian had medically assisted over one hundred suicides following rigorous interviews with all patients, their relatives, and medical records to ensure the patient was terminally ill, in e