A Doctor Who Never Said, "Take Two Aspirins and Call Me in the Morning"

Blogging is light today because Loose Canon is going to mosey on down to Dupont Circle and make a second attempt to see "Brokeback Mountain", the saga of two gay cowpokes (okay, they're actually shepherds). But there is no end to uplifting movies in store for Loose Canon? Don't hold your breath (but it would be sort of appropriate if you did), but Wesley Smith reports that Hollywood has found yet another hero: "jailed murderer Jack Kevorkian may soon be the subject of a laudatory movie biopic."

Smith adds tantalizingly:

"The producer is an unknown named Steve Jones, whose Bee Holder Productions owns the rights to an unpublished biography co-authored by Kevorkian acolyte Neal Nicol--a man so devoted to his mentor that he once allowed Kevorkian to infuse him with cadaver blood, resulting in a nasty case of hepatitis. Any thought that the movie might be an accurate portrayal vanished when Jones claimed in a press release that Kevorkian 'walks in the footsteps of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.'"

While Kevorkian has been portrayed as a doc who helps the terminally sick die more comfortably, "In reality, Kevorkian's notorious assisted-suicide campaign, which dominated the headlines throughout most of the 1990s, was driven by a ghoulish desire to conduct human vivisection, or 'obitiatry,' as he liked to call it. Yes, you read right. Kevorkian's primary motive in all that he did was to create the social conditions that would permit him to experiment on the people he was putting to death."

"Maybe someone should tell Dr. Kevorkian, who's now in prison without access to dying bodies to observe or experiment on, that the thing he's interested in sounds an awful lot like the human soul, and that there's already quite a lot of information available on that subject," notes Elizabeth Kantor.