Word: kevorkian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rusting old van in a public campground 2,000 miles away from her home, Janet Adkins faced death last week. It took the form of an odd-looking contraption made mostly of three dripping bottles, the invention of a Detroit doctor named Jack Kevorkian. As Adkins settled down on a small cot, she was attended by Kevorkian. He hooked her up to a heart monitor, slid an intravenous needle into her arm and started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base...
...premiere performance of Kevorkian's suicide machine, which he invented for the terminally ill, blew open the debate over the boundaries of mercy killing. As the details of her life and death emerged, Adkins became a symbol of all those patients who confront a horrible disease and vow to maintain some dignity in death. And as Kevorkian carried his crusade for legal mercy killing to networks and newspapers around the country, he became a standard-bearer for all those who fail to see a moral difference between unplugging a respirator and plugging in a poison machine. He was quickly dubbed...
...strong, lively woman who loved hang gliding and mountain climbing and playing her flute, she was not yet very sick; the week before her suicide she beat her 32-year-old son in a tennis match. It was more her dread than her disease that drove her to seek Kevorkian's help. Even before her illness she had joined the Hemlock Society, a group that supports terminally ill patients' right to die by means including assisted suicide. But in her home state of Oregon, such means are illegal, and doctors at her hospital say they never advise suicide...