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When The People Bubble Pops: Man's Evil and Deadly Overpopulation
When the People Bubble POPs is a clear and detailed analysis of human overpopulation of Planet Earth. This scholarly work features detailed graphs and limericks by the author. "You Don't Know Jack", a movie starring Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, and John Goodman about Dr. Kevorkian's life, will be produced in spring, 2010, in addition to a documentary film about Dr. Kevorkian. (Artwork and music from glimmerIQs, an anthology of Dr. Kevorkian's writing published by World Audience, Inc. (www.worldaudience.org) will be featured in the movies.
114 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Jack Kevorkian
15 books37 followersJacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime".
Beginning in 1999, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.
As an oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public.
Beginning in 1999, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.
As an oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public.
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June 3, 2012
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a brilliant and compassionate man with an exceptionally strong sense of social justice. He is also an intellectual hero of mine who wrote a number of interesting books throughout his life.
It's a shame, then, that the last book he wrote before he died had to be so sloppy. Its redeeming value is that it does point to an elephant in the room that people don't want to acknowledge-- overpopulation-- but overall the way it is executed just does not work. It is poorly written and edited, spends a lot of time on irrelevant topics (such as the infamous German Cannibal), reeks of nihilism, and is laden with logical fallacies. With horrendously outdated sources, Kevorkian says a lot of things just for shock value, such as ostensibly advocating infanticide and ultimately entire species suicide in order to control the population... or, in this case, reduce it to zero. At the end, he says something to the effect of, "By the way, don't take this seriously. I just want to provoke you and get you to talk." Well, okay. You had me going there for a second, Jack.
As I said, I have great respect for Dr. Kevorkian for who he was as a person overall (his euthanasia campaign was just one of many amazing projects he threw himself into headfirst-- I read his biography and a number of articles and know pretty much everything about him that's publicly available) but... you know that expression, "A broken clock is right twice a day?" Well, Kevorkian was the opposite. He was a clock that functioned beautifully most of the time but malfunctioned every once in a while. This book is a perfect example of one of his "broken clock" moments. Mostly, it reminded me of a little kid drawing gruesome pictures and showing them to his parents just to see them freak out (something I used to do, but that's another story!). Clear and detailed analysis? No, not clear; detailed, yes (but in the wrong ways). Scholarly, it ain't.
I highly recommend the other books he wrote, all of which were written with clarity, lucidity, intelligence and, when relevant, compassion.
It's a shame, then, that the last book he wrote before he died had to be so sloppy. Its redeeming value is that it does point to an elephant in the room that people don't want to acknowledge-- overpopulation-- but overall the way it is executed just does not work. It is poorly written and edited, spends a lot of time on irrelevant topics (such as the infamous German Cannibal), reeks of nihilism, and is laden with logical fallacies. With horrendously outdated sources, Kevorkian says a lot of things just for shock value, such as ostensibly advocating infanticide and ultimately entire species suicide in order to control the population... or, in this case, reduce it to zero. At the end, he says something to the effect of, "By the way, don't take this seriously. I just want to provoke you and get you to talk." Well, okay. You had me going there for a second, Jack.
As I said, I have great respect for Dr. Kevorkian for who he was as a person overall (his euthanasia campaign was just one of many amazing projects he threw himself into headfirst-- I read his biography and a number of articles and know pretty much everything about him that's publicly available) but... you know that expression, "A broken clock is right twice a day?" Well, Kevorkian was the opposite. He was a clock that functioned beautifully most of the time but malfunctioned every once in a while. This book is a perfect example of one of his "broken clock" moments. Mostly, it reminded me of a little kid drawing gruesome pictures and showing them to his parents just to see them freak out (something I used to do, but that's another story!). Clear and detailed analysis? No, not clear; detailed, yes (but in the wrong ways). Scholarly, it ain't.
I highly recommend the other books he wrote, all of which were written with clarity, lucidity, intelligence and, when relevant, compassion.
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