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Kevorkian’s run for Michigan’s 9th district House seat proved unsuccessful on November 4, 2008. Running as an Independent, he was heavily outpaced by both the Republican incumbent and Democrat rival. The final tally for Michigan’s 9th district results are below, courtesy of the Michigan Secretary of State (S0S Results):
Gary Peters, (DEM): 184,098 votes
Joe Knollenberg, (REP): 150,574 votes
Jack Kevorkian, (NPA): 9,047 votes
Adam Goodman, (LIB): 4,937 votes
Douglas Campbell, (GRN): 4,800 votes
Jack Kevorkian’s run for Congress was a symbolic win, however.
Kevorkian, a former felon with the notorious nickname “Doctor of Death,” was without any Party affiliation or backing, severely limited funds, and without previous political accolades to his name. Joe Knollenberg was running as the incumbent, and the Democratic candidate Gary Peters was Michigan’s former state senator and lottery commissioner. Peters’s win, in many ways, was part of the wave that swept through Oakland, where Barack Obama posted a 16-point lead over Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
That Kevorkian collected 2.5% of the votes, compared to the Libertarian and The Green Party candidates, who each received 1.4%, speaks volumes to his cause.
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Well when i saw the title “symbolic win” i thought maybe this was referring to legalization of assisted suicides!
I am actually for the legalization of assisted suicide in some cases. I work in a hospital and I come across many patients who everyone knows who is not going to ever make it out of the hospital yet they are taking up a valuable bed that someone who will survive could use.
They are also depleted valuable resources, and for what? These people can easily be euthanized, painlessly, and for little to no cost to them or the hospital. Two nights ago I was assigned to a patient who was terminal, receiving comfort measures only, which means we give him pain medication every two hours until he dies. This patient has been in the hospital for 1 week and was not expected to make it days. The family has been staying with him and got very upset that he has not died yet. The patient has a living will that says he wants nothing done for him in the case that he becomes terminal. So the patient and the patients family want him dead, yet he is dying slowly than expected.
Why can we not simply push IV potassium and end this mans suffering when he has legal paperwork showing that he will not survive, and that he wants nothing done to keep him alive? We should simply give him IV medication that would instantly terminate his life, yet this is illegal.
So now we are wasting 10’s of thousands of dollars stinging this man along. His insurance will not pay for this. The hospital is losing money. The patients family and the patient is being psychologically tortured from him staying alive with both liver and kidney failure. His platelet count is almost zero and he is bleeding from many different sites. He has agonal breathing. He should be dead.
Kendale, I’m a little worried about you. I hope your employer doesn’t see this post. It could cost you your job, and I think you know it.
Kendale
You should transfer to a different part of the hospital. Away from terminal ill.
First of all, there is NOTHING in my post that will get me in trouble. I did not name any names, and I’m sure none of you even know where I work. but I get where you are going Babs, HIPPA laws and patient confidentiality.
And as for bill, you’re an idiot as usual. My position on assisted suicide has nothing to do with the care that I give. Honestly you’re starting to get on my nerves with your stupidity.
Keendale
I wish you had gave me your hospital #. I would give them your comment
Then I would find you and kill you. Just like I tell anyone else. You risk my job, and my ability to take care of my daughter, and you will pay dearly.
Then again I didn’t mention any names, so I have violated no rules. 
Kendale
I was not thinking of trying to get you fired
Bill,
I apologize for taking it that way then. Babs brought to my attention that I was skating on thing ice by discussing a patient with those who are not on the “need to know” list. There are very strict laws on such matters, and I was wrong for saying what I did. I was simply trying to use a real life example to explain my opinion on assisted suicide, an issue that is very important to me. I really hate to watch people who are terminal, die slowly, when they don’t really HAVE to, per say. Also wasting valuable resources on them is a big issue with me as well. There are far to many people who need medical attention and resources in my book, for us to be wasting them on people who don’t need them.
Again, I am sorry for assuming that about your statement.
P.S. My job knows my opinions very well, I voice them nightly, openly, and with all interest of being heard on them.
I believe that when you have an opinion, it means nothing, unless you voice it and act on it. I am doing just that.
Kendale
That’s ok
Kendale
Medical news. A windpipe has been grown. using her genetics, and placed in a lady. Thought you might be interested
A trachea has been grown?, where is that at?
Neat. They didn’t actually grow the trachea, the used a cadaver trachea and somehow removed the cadaver antibodies and used the patients stem cells to produce her own antibodies with the cadaver trachea so that her body would not reject the cadaver trachea. Not quite and organ grown with stem cells, but still kind of neat
Thanx Bill
Kendalle
I saw it on the news. Sorry, I do not remember where this occured. I guess you know awhile back a man received 2 arms. I bet you can find it on the net. I hope ability is developed for organs. I know they are working on injections material. That someday may re-generate organs.. Ending diabetes ?
Kendale
You are right. However tech is making head-way. I had teeth implant work. Coral was used. As the coral desolves, it is replaced with my own bone. Such techques may be used in other ways. Maybe other than bone. This is why so much money was used to break human DNA years ago.
They’ve actually already been able to grow opens in pigs that are then able to be transplanted into humans.
Google it, it’s neat.
They are doing all sorts of things with DNA now.
Lots of vaccines are coming out using DNA recombination therapy.
This is how they are going to cure many viral infections such as HIV
Hence why there are vaccines against viruses and antiretroviral medications.
This stuff is really cool.
I use rDNA origin Humalog. I am fortune my liver still produces, if not overwhelmed with sugar.
Howard Hugh Institution is not funded by government. They can do research that others can not in stem cell. Although I understand soon eggs will not be needed.
Though DNA material is loss at each divisions. As seen with the orginial sheep (Dolly) reproduction test. The babies lived a shorten life.
Kindale
The lady received her windpipe back. It was treated and neutralized. Then treated with her DNA.. Was done in Spain.
I read the article seconds after I read you post. I even saw a news clip discussing it. It said they used a dead womans trachea treated with the patients stem cells from her hip and other areas. Before treating it they stripped it of the dead womans antigens.
Every person has markers on their cells, when donor cells do not have the same markers, the body sees it as a foreign body and attacks it, meaning rejections. The dead womans markers were completely destroyed. Then stem cells from the receiving patient were applied to the donors trachea. This way the recipients body saw this donor trachea as its own.
Speaking of the uses of DNA, coincidentally I caught a news show today that was talking about DNA being stolen from political candidates and analyzed. Anyone else catch that? Seems the current President has someone who actually goes behind him picking up his cups, etc., to avoid just such a thing. The scientist on the interview says the problem is that science has surpassed laws concerning DNA and privacy of the individual.
So a woman steals Bill Gates hair, gets it processed,, impregnates, has baby; Hey Bill, I want child support.
Well, if they can grow a Woolly Mammoth from a frozen hair follicle, I have faith they can do just about anything else…
Michael
You beat me. I was getting ready to post that. You must be watching Fox news ?
Southern California University is studying IGF-1. In mice it stops most cancers and mice live much longer. A group of dwafts in Ecuador have been found with this. They do not get cancer. Scencistics say this find will advance the study 20 years. Night line will show this tonight.
::wondering how you can create sperm from DNA from hair:: I’m sleepy, I suppose you don’t make sperm you just take an ovum and implant the male dna into it.
Kevorkian is an angel of death, I commend him on doing what all the naysayers couldn’t or shouldn’t be done.
Shake,
I concur.