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Originally Posted by fantasma3c
^What your saying is its not homicide its assisted suicide. And think well that not everyone believes in ethics. And not everyone lives forever.
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Well this doctor prescribed and injected or made someone inject these drugs in Michael, ultimately killing him. Whtether it was homicide or assisted suicide, it seemed more like an unitentional homicide (dunno how's tat called in US). I don't think Michael Jackson wanted to die, but just wanted to have his symptoms eased. The doctor however used angerous stuff that could kill him, was careless about it and ultimately lead him to die. That's homicide on my list. Euthanasia is the name of assiting a patient to die, but that's one controversial issue that I won't be commenting and that if I'm not mistaken is considered a crime in many countries out there (whether some people think is wrong or right, should be allowed or not, lies the controversy, and i won't be talking about it here). And yeah, not everyone lives forever, but there's really a difference in someone dying because nothing more could be done, or them dying because someone did something that shortened that person's life, and that could have been avoided. The types of medications that were used are medications to be used in a hospital enviroment because they pose serious health threats that might demand emergencial intervention. No sane doctor would be freely playing with these in a house with no advanced support available
Well, the truth we might never know indeed. It's all assumptions based in a few clues (that might as well be biased). The evidences don't see too favorable that this doctor was doing something nice though. I might be harsh and unfairly judging this doctor, but it's hard to understand the concept why he was palying with oil & fire in a palce where he didn't have the tools to put the flames down.
And about some people not believing in ethics. Medicine is a profession that relies on ethics. People who don't believe in them shouldn't be working as physicians in first place, and should look for another job, since the regulations of the profession are in the majority ruled by ethical purporses. This doctors patients might not believe in ethics, and that would be ok, but if he doesn't, he doesn't have a palce in being a doctor.