). The Dutch law allows doctors to assist the suicide of terminally ill people if they make a knowledgeable request. Maclean's adds, "Under the proposal, children as young as 12 could demand and receive euthanasia" ("World Notes" 21). Mike Corder wrote in the Des Moines Register "The plans were given a guarded welcome by the Netherlands Association for Voluntary Euthanasia . . . " (4). Corder adds "The new law also recognizes so-called 'euthanasia declarations,' documents in which patients state they want euthanasia even if they are no longer in a position to ask for it themselves - for example, if they are in a coma" (4). Janssen continued "It is thought that about two hundred thousand people (out of a population of sixteen million) carry a piece of paper declaring their wish to be helped to die in case there are no more prospects for a normal healthy life" (41-42).
             In the United States the most recognized man connected to physician-assisted suicide is Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian has helped over one hundred thirty people commit suicide. Goodman commented, on Kevorkian, "I don't trust his judgment or his free-lance assessment of the 130 patients whose deaths he assisted" (9). Kevorkian was arrested for first degree murder after injecting Thomas Youk with a lethal drug. Youk suffered from ALS or Lou Gerig's disease. Kevorkian taped the incident and it aired on "60 Minutes." After the airing of the tape Michigan prosecutors filed first degree murder charges against Kevorkian. He would be tried for the fifth time.
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