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...doctor was firm and combative. "There's no rational argument against this," said Dr. Kevorkian as he sat down with TIME's Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull. At the time, the Michigan legislature was rushing to make assisted suicide a crime punishable by four years in jail. But Kevorkian seemed unperturbed. Asked if he would defy the law, Kevorkian simply said, "I never speculate about the future. All I do is what's right for the patient." Ever since the passage of the law -- and even with last week's court overturn of the ban -- the self-styled obitiatrist...
Death abides with all fanatics, not least because they are so often willing to risk it for their cause. It presses close around Jack Kevorkian, the doctor who has made death his specialty, closer still last week as he returned to the practice that so often had seemed destined to land him in jail. "To go to jail is the ultimate slavery," he told TIME. "If I have lost my freedom, I have lost something more valuable than life. Therefore, continuing life becomes pointless. It's as simple as that." Dramatic self-negation would be a fitting exit for Death...
LIKE BROTHER, LIKE SISTER. MARGO JANUS, SISTER OF ASSISTed-suicide crusader DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, is a regular attendee at his deadly house calls. "She's been at every one," said Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian's lawyer and spokesperson. But why? According to Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutors, the 66-year-old Janus, who has worked as a secretary for Chrysler, has no medical ! background and doesn't participate in the suicides in any substantive way. "She feels the way Jack feels," explains Fieger. "Her firm conviction ((is)) that human beings who are suffering have rights over their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted...
While restrictions are loosening in the Netherlands, they are tightening in some parts of the U.S. Reacting to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who had helped 12 people commit suicide as of last week, Michigan has enacted a law making doctor-assisted suicide illegal beginning next month. Kevorkian says he'll ignore...
...someone did. Facing a March 30 state deadline specifically enacted to end his practice of medically assisting suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian and two helpers assembled the machinery that allowed Miller to do himself in. But this ninth "medicide" since 1990 offered some new twists: Miller was the first male to die and the first outside Kevorkian's former home territory of Oakland County. The message, said his attorney, was that Kevorkian would not only defy the impending Michigan ban but continue to expand his practice throughout the state to include anyone, anywhere, anytime...