In 2007, Jack Kevorkian, also known as "Dr. Death", gave a television interview regarding his views on physician-assisted suicide ( Neal). He was released from prison just months before the interview: Kevorkian was sentenced to serve 10 to 25 years in prison for euthanizing more than 100 patients between 1990 and 1992 (Neal). By his own admission, Kevorkian administered euthanasia to several patients and did so without remorse. In the highly publicized 2007 interview, Dr. Death quoted prominent Scottish philosopher David Hume, who proclaimed that "no one throws away a life worth keeping" (Neal). When asked to justify his point of view, Kevorkian clearly expressed his position: the patient has the moral right to decide whether his life is worth living, society should never usurp this right from him. Depriving the individual of the freedom to commit suicide is equivalent to depriving him of other inalienable rights such as the right to free expression or the right to practice the religion of his choice (Neal). Kevorkian's thesis strikes many Americans as outlandish, even barbaric, because David Hume was not the only prominent philosopher whose ideas can be used to support the argument that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. Another renowned social philosopher, John Stuart Mill, exclaimed that an individual is always sovereign over his body (Pojman). Therefore, a person should have the freedom to harm himself, provided only that the harm he inflicts on himself does not cause pain to others. It was on this basis that John Stuart Mill defended suicide. The philosophical views of ...... middle of article ...... l three of the aforementioned schools of thought in moral philosophy, it is imperative that physician-assisted suicide be administered only in those 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 good and evil. » New York: Wadsworth Editions. Print, 2002. Darwall, Stephen. “Ethics.” New York: Wiley-Blackwell Editions. Print, 2002.Mulgan, Tim. “Understanding utilitarianism.” New York: Acumen Editions. Print, 2007.