Word: kevorkianism
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...Jack Kevorkian seems for now to have reached Celebrity Heaven, the very Eye of the Hoopla, which is to say he is never completely out of the news these days, what with going to court or coming from court or explaining what happened in court. "Thank God for the jury system," said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, after the Doc's latest trial in Michigan, and well he might. Simply by punching a couple of jury-pleasing buttons, the team of Kevorkian and Fieger should be able to keep their show on the boards and out of jail forever, until...
ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
...thing that would stop me...is being burned at the stake. I don't like burning to death." --Dr. Jack Kevorkian...
...University of Utah, "patients who are sophisticated enough to want the aid and physicians who are sympathetic enough to want to give it often do it in such a way that the intent and the knowledge are left deliberately ambiguous." Only a few, like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, have defied this conspiracy of silence...
...that legal prohibitions against assisted suicide may be crumbling, doctors all over the country could soon be as up front as Kevorkian--a prospect that has always disturbed many of them. For one thing, doctors may become more vulnerable to lawsuits because they will suddenly be open to scrutiny by family members and attorneys. If health professionals are going to be held accountable, says Dr. Howard Grossman, one of the three doctors who successfully challenged the New York law, "there must be clear guidelines of what constitutes a terminally ill patient...