e and euthanasia/PAS argument a little more abstract. Neil Gorsuch, a writer from the Southern Medical Journal quotes Dr. Kevorkian for saying that we must eliminate the "defective" in order to "strengthen the gene pool" or that we should "surplus" people because the world is "overpopulated". Dr. Kevorkian helped more than 130 people commit suicide, and is currently serving a prison sentence of 10 to 25 years in Michigan. He was convicted of second-degree murder in April of 1999. Following his trial, he appeared on national television in which he administered a lethal injection into Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease; Kevorkian dared the criminal justice system to stop him. An analysis of 69 assisted suicides supervised by Jack Kevorkian has concluded that 75 percent of his patients were not terminally ill when he helped them die, and that autopsies could not confirm any physical disease in five of the cases(1). Dr. Kevorkian portrays one of the most frighteni
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