“죽음의 의사” 케보키안 가석방
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I’m Katie Couric. Tonight, the man who made the entire nation think about the way we live and die. Jack Kevorkian, the suicide doctor walks out of prison and into Mike Wallace <CBS 시사프로, 60 minutes의> 통신원. What would you do if a desperate person comes to you, Jack Kevorkian, says, ‘I need help.’
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“죽음의 의사” 케보키안 가석방
Hello, everyone. We begin tonight with one of this country’s most emotional issues. Whether people facing unending, unbearable physical suffering should have the right to end their lives. Today, the physician who ignited ~에 불을 붙이다 the debate over the right to die was released ~을 석방하다 from prison. Dr. Jack Kevorkian had served ~의 죄로 복역하다 eight years for helping a man take his life 자살하다, an act that was broadcast on 60 Minutes. We have two reports tonight beginning with Cynthia Bowers.
Frail 여린, 연약한, but still feisty 기운찬 and wearing his trademark cardigan sweater, Jack Kevorkian walked a freedom today with a smile. “It was wonderful.” He was known as Dr. Death and he made house calls with his homemade suicide machine, saying he was on a mission to help people who wanted to end their lives. And for the better part of a decade, he got away with it by his own count, more than a hundred times. “Are you sure you wanna go ahead now?”
Until late 1998, when 22 million Americans saw this video on CBS’s 60 Minutes. It showed Kevorkian injecting ALS 근위축성 측삭경화증 victim Thomas Youk with a lethal 치명적인 substance 약. He was charged 기소하다 in the death and convicted of ~한 혐의로 유죄를 선고 받다 second degree murder. Youk’s family stood by 편들다 Kevorkian then and now. “Jack was the only person providing people with a choice when they found themselves in a difficult situation at the end of life.”
As a condition of parole 가석방, Kevorkian promised not to participate in any more deaths. In an exclusive 독점 interview with CBS’s Mike Wallace, he says he means it. What would you do if a desperate person comes to you, Jack Kevorkian, and says ‘I need help.’ “It would be painful for me, but I'd have to refuse him because I gave my word 약속하다 that I won't do it again."