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...crackdown on Final Exit Network, a group based in Marietta, Ga., that is accused of assisted suicide, has revived the right-to-die debate that was fueled in the 1990s by Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill people. But Final Exit claims that its volunteers do not perform assisted suicides à la Kevorkian, who was convicted of second-degree murder and went to prison for giving a lethal injection to a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Rather, the group argues that it merely provides a "compassionate presence" for terminally...
...Jack Kevorkian, whose public championing of the legalization of medical euthanasia has earned him the moniker “Dr. Death,” attacked medical organizations and the Supreme Court in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday. After being convicted of second-degree murder for assisting terminally ill patients to commit suicide, Kevorkian, a former pathologist, served in prison for eight years before being released on parole in 2007. Kevorkian said he uses the 9th Amendment, which addresses civil rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, as the basis for his belief in a patient?...
...remember Jack Kevorkian, the pathological pathologist who, when he wasn't transfusing blood from corpses, refining his "mercitron" machine or arguing for an auction market for human organs, used to help people commit suicide in a rusty van in a public park. So maybe it's no surprise that in the Year of the Outsider, he's finally out of jail (eight years for second-degree murder) and running for Congress as an independent in the Fifth District in Michigan...
...poor. Some critics say that women and minorities are quicker than others to feel like a financial or emotional burden to their families, and may be more easily persuaded to end their lives. Research from Colorado State University shows that of the 75 suicides Michigan doctor Jack Kevorkian assisted through 1997, 72% were women, and more than three-quarters of those women, while certainly ill and suffering, were not expected to die within six months. Others worry that the law could coerce people with disabilities into suicide. "Financial pressures motivate too many important health care decisions," says opponent Duane French...
...Harvard goes all out making sure that undergraduates are ready to rock their LSATs and medical students can acquire the requisite skills for not going Kevorkian on their patients, but how far does $40,000 go towards teaching students to maintain happy, healthy relationships? FM tests how well love-birds can survive in the oft-unfavorable climate of Cambridge without flying south for the winter using our very own LSAT—the Love...