Word: kevorkianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after five years of fighting, Gary went looking for one more doctor, the one he had heard about on television and read about in the papers. He followed the case of Janet Adkins and supported both her decision and Dr. Kevorkian's role. Last April, when he finally reached Kevorkian, they spoke very briefly. Kevorkian asked that he write a letter explaining his situation, which Gary did, very, very slowly. I'm able on a computer with one hand and arm to touch one button at a time. I wrote the letter and addressed it. He wrote back...
ALTHOUGH HIS STATE MEDICAL LICENSE WAS SUSpended last year, Dr. Jack Kevorkian % of Michigan continues to make his own bizarre kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford, Michigan...
This time, however, Kevorkian (ghoulishly nicknamed Jack the Reaper) faced no immediate legal action, since the prosecutor in Oakland County, where all the deaths have taken place, declined to press homicide charges. Prosecutor Richard Thompson cited the fact that his past efforts have all been overturned by state courts. In the meantime, Kevorkian is free to pursue his suicide- assistance practice, unless the state legislature takes action. That seemed more likely last week, when Michigan lawmakers reacted to the latest death by finally moving toward passage of a bill that could criminalize all assisted suicides by next spring...
...KEVORKIAN Is this some kind of grisly game...
Noting that the state of Michigan has no law barring physician-assisted suicide, a judge in Pontiac dismissed murder charges against Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, for his role in the death of two chronically ill women in 1991. Though the state senate has passed a bill that would make assisted suicide a felony, the house has yet to follow suit. "We have more consumer protection for people buying a car than we do for people making this type of decision," says state senator Fred Dillingham, the bill's sponsor...