Jack Kevorkian was a pathologist with no experience after medical school and residency in treating living patients.
1991 A Michigan court bars Dr
Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
Signature interviews: Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Barbra Streisand (1991),
Jack Kevorkian (2007)
Some of the illustrious contributors who've helped us do so--and who don't appear on the cover or elsewhere in this anniversary issue--include (in no particular order): Gene Roddenberry, Linus Pauling, Margaret Sanger, Howard Zinn, Martin Luther King Jr., Alice Walker, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Margaret Atwood,
Jack Kevorkian, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Isaac Asimov, John Kenneth Galbraith, Sidney Hook, Kurt Vonnegut, A.
The most notorious example is that of retired Michigan pathologist
Jack Kevorkian, who was found guilty of the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old race-car driver with terminal Lou Gehrig's disease.
The most notorious example is that of the late
Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist found guilty of the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old race-car driver with Lou Gehrig's disease.
Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient.
It's common during the throes of grief to experience a confusing storm of feelings--intense sorrow, terror, a painful yearning, a sense of helplessness, even anger, says Kristine Kevorkian, an expert on death and dying and a former hospice social worker, who is not related to the late assisted-suicide advocate
Jack Kevorkian.
The late
Jack Kevorkian's home-made device was withdrawn from sale in New York after it didn't attract a high enough hid.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, in a 2,128-word obituary (nearly three times the length of this article), fondly recalled
Jack Kevorkian as "A Doctor Who Helped End Lives." Kevorkian, 83, the Michigan pathologist turned assisted-suicide activist, died in a hospital, a more dignified locale than the 1960's-era Volkswagen microbus where he uncorked the Thanatron, his suicide machine, dispensing a fatal chemical cocktail.
Jack Kevorkian, the zealous, straight-talking doctor known as "Dr Death" for his lifelong crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide, died Friday at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.