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Neuburger ENG Comp 101-102 20 February 2012 A Case of Assisted Suicide Response Essay Jack Kevorkians A Case of Assisted Suicide is an excerpt from his book Prescription:Medicide. If a person has a terminal disease or illness then they should be able to choose life or death. In this excerpt a woman, Janet, is diagnosed with Alzheimers and with her husband, asked for Jack Kervokians help with concluding her life. Kevorkian does not allow just anyone to receive his help in the expert he explains , any candidate for the Mercitron must have exhausted every potentially beneficial medical intervention, no matter how remotely promising. Meaning that, in order for Janet to have qualified she had to make sure she had gone through every treatment and medications for her condition, all proving to be ineffective. Janets doing this explains to the readers that sometimes there is not always a plan B with positive results and so therefore Kevorkians machine became that plan B. At the end of the excerpt it says, It was 2:30 P.M. Suddenly-for the first time that cold, dank day-warm sunshine bathed the park. Janets choice was the best option so that she no longer had to suffer or grow any older with her terminal disease. 194 Kevorkian, Jack. A Case of Assisted Suicide. The Power of language. Print. 1991.