{"id":9196,"date":"2010-07-02T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2010-07-02T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T20:41:23","slug":"an-interview-with-dr-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-interview-with-dr-death\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Dr. Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjay Gupta <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/06\/14\/kevorkian.gupta\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">interviews <\/a>Jack Kevorkian<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have no regrets, none whatsoever,&#8221; he said. It was windy outside, but it was also over 90 degrees in sunny Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was now sweating, and he was &#8230; well, cold.<\/p>\n<p>He shifted his gaze from his lawyer back to me. &#8220;Sanjay, you want to know the single worst moment of my life?&#8221;<br \/>\nThat wasn&#8217;t the question I asked, but in fact I was curious to know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK,&#8221; I replied &#8212; a little uneasily.<\/p>\n<p>He smiled now and said in a very deliberate, almost staccato voice: &#8220;The single worst moment of my life&#8230; was the moment I was born.&#8221; And, we had officially begun my sit-down interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[flv:https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Kevorkian_I_have_no_regrets_gupta.kevorkian.devices.cnn_640x360_dl.flv 640 360]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the nihilism inherent in thinking the worst moment of his life was his own birth, Kevorkian seems to exhibit an enthusiasm for killing that borders on a chilling amalgam of insanity and the demonic.<\/p>\n<p>The only good thing about this is the fact that Kevorkian has become an unintentionally effective advocate against euthanasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjay Gupta interviews Jack Kevorkian &#8220;I have no regrets, none whatsoever,&#8221; he said. It was windy outside, but it was also over 90 degrees in sunny Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was now sweating, and he was &#8230; well, cold. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-interview-with-dr-death\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[705,2134],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euthanasia","tag-dr-jack-kevorkian","tag-euthanasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}