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...middle of his war against the nation's traditional views on suicide, Jack Kevorkian -- Dr. Death -- has been taken prisoner. The 65-year-old retired pathologist was hauled into a Detroit courtroom last Friday to face charges of violating a new Michigan law that makes assisting suicides a crime. He went limp rather than post bond and had to be dragged out by the arms, his legs scraping the floor. "I won't eat," he vowed. Like a one-man Greek chorus, his lawyer intoned, "We are now beginning the death watch...
...irony had to be intentional. Kevorkian, who argues that everyone should have the right to decide when to die and that doctors should be allowed to help, has attended 19 suicides in the past three years. Now he was threatening to starve himself to death. Wearing green prison coveralls in a 10-ft. by 10- ft. isolation cell, he was refusing meals and drinking only water. His jailer, Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano, said Kevorkian would be watched closely and, if necessary as a last resort, the state would get a court order to authorize forced feeding. "Are we going...
...Jack Kevorkian will stand trial in Michigan for helping a young man commit suicide. A district judge ruled last week that a new state law prohibiting assisted suicide had to be enforced, rejecting arguments from Kevorkian's lawyers that the law was unconstitutional. Kevorkian, meanwhile, was present at the apparent suicide of another Michigan resident -- the 18th case on his record...
...sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME seemed so unfulfilling without our eclectic materialist that we enticed Howard back to the fold as Society editor last spring. Since then, he has overseen covers that have examined the ethics of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's euthanasia campaign, the culture of violence in America and the anguished battle over Baby Jessica. "Politics and science and business often deal with complex issues," says Chua-Eoan. "I prefer stories that focus on human lives and emotions. They are simpler and yet more enigmatic...
...Jack Kevorkian reopens his suicide practice -- and along with it, the fierce debate over how far doctors should go to help patients who want...