When there is any discussion of assisted suicide in the USA, one name seems to pop up
more than any other, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, also commonly known as Dr. Death. Kevorkian
himself has assisted more than 200 assisted suicides in the US since 1990. Also since 1990
Kevorkian has been tried for several murders stretching from assisted suicide, only recently did
Kevorkian actually got convicted of second degree murder and now is in a federal prison in
Kevorkian, born in Pontiac, Michigan, was educated at the University of Michigan
School of Medicine with a specialty in Pathology. What he learned at school, prompted him to
be a big Euthanasia proponent. He has written several essays and articles such as "The Last
Fearsome Taboo: Medical Aspects of Planned Death."
Kevorkian was convicted of 2nd Degree murder in Pontiac, Michigan, the same place
where he received 3 acquittals and one mis-trial . In the case of 1999, Kevorkian assisted a
man who was dying of Lou Gherigs disease. He had the injection of his chemicals into the mans
body on video tape. Kevorkian then went on the show "60 Minutes," showing his video. On
the show he dares the DA to press charges and even has enough confidence in what he did that
he was his own lawyer in the murder case against him(which almost is never successful).
In "A Case Of Assisted Suicide," Kevorkian tries to to give clear explanations of his
work, such as the requirements to be eligible to his so called "Medicide" or "The Death
Machine. His main point and argument is that people who are suffering from physically terminal
diseases, such as Lou Gherigs Disease and from Mentally terminal diseases such as Alzheimer's
disease should have someone they can go to to ease family and obviously the patients own
mental and physical anguish. The popular belief about kevorkian is that he likes killing people,
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