April 7, 2000 EXTRA

 

 

 

"I was not at all in favor of Jack
Kevorkian as a recipient"

 

Dr. Robert Coles,
Harvard University
Letter to Not Dead Yet

 

Pulitzer Prizewinning Coles says 'no' on Gleitsman Award to Kevorkian

Harvard University's Dr. Robert Coles, famed child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Spiritual Life of Children, was "not at all in favor of Jack Kevorkian as a recipient" of the Gleitsman Award, which will be bestowed April 10 in ceremonies at the University, he told Not Dead Yet's Steven Drake.

"I'm not at all in favor of the way Dr. Kevorkian has behaved, or what he has advocated," Coles wrote in a recent letter to Drake. Coles told Drake he had "made clear to my medical colleagues my point of view, as I did to an important member of the Gleitsman Foundation before the award was to be made."

"Such a melancholy and morally misguided story, that of Dr. Kevorkian and his various initiatives!" Coles wrote.

Kevorkian remains in jail in Michigan, serving his sentence for conviction for the murder of Thomas Youk, whose death he induced. News reports say Kevorkian's award will be accepted on his behalf by Youk's family, who supported Kevorkian's killing of Youk, who had amyotropic lateral sclerosis.

Members of Not Dead Yet plan to protest at Monday's event at Harvard.

 

More on Not Dead Yet from the July/August, 1999
issue of Ragged Edge magazine

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