In 2007, Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Dr. Death,” gave a television interview regarding his views on physician-assisted suicide (Neal). He was only released from prison several months before the interview: Kevorkian was ordered to serve a prison sentence of 10 to 25 years for euthanizing over 100 patients between 1990 and 1992 (Neal). By his own admission, Kevorkian administered euthanasia to numerous patients and did so without pangs of conscience. In the highly publicized 2007 interview, Dr. Death quoted prominent Scottish philosopher David Hume, who famously stated that "no one throws away a life worth keeping" (Neal). When asked to justify his views, Kevorkian made his position clear: the patient has the moral right to decide whether life is worth living, and society should never usurp this right. Depriving the individual of the freedom to take his own life is equivalent to depriving him of other inalienable rights such as, for example, the right to free expression or the right to practice a religion of his choice (Neal). Kevorkian's thesis strikes many Americans as outlandish, if not barbaric, David Hume was not the only eminent philosopher whose ideas can be used to support the argument that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. Another famous social philosopher, John Stuart Mill, said that an individual is always sovereign over his own body (Pojman). Therefore, an individual should have the freedom to harm themselves, provided only that the self-inflicted injuries do not cause suffering to others. On this basis John Stuart Mill defended suicide. The philosophical views of… half of the article… of three of the above schools of thought in moral philosophy, it is imperative that physician-assisted suicide be administered only under these three conditions. Works Cited Crisp, Roger and Slote, Michael. “Virtue Ethics” Oxford: Oxford University Press. Print, 1997.Neal, Nicole. “Between the Dying and the Dead: The Life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the Battle for Legalized Euthanasia.” Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Print, 2006.Pojman, Luis. “Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong.” New York: Wadsworth Publishing. Print, 2002.Darwall, Stephen. “Deontology”. New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Print, 2002.Mulgan, Tim. “Understanding Utilitarianism.” New York: Acumen Publishing. Press, 2007.