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...dying, you may view Dr. Jack Kevorkian as a courageous crusader for your rights. If you are a doctor, he may seem more like a cheap purveyor of easy death. Either way, he has become the lightning rod of the right-to-die movement and a gifted promoter of a cause he desperately believes in -- and shockingly abets. Last week the doctor who has made his name by hastening death rather than forestalling it helped two more women kill themselves in Michigan. Lawmakers and doctors may debate the ethics of euthanasia endlessly; but while that argument unfolds, the activists have...
...vanguard is Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who appeared on every television talk show and news program in the country last year in the 24 hours after he helped Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins commit suicide. He hooked her up to a homemade contraption that allowed her to push a button and send lethal potassium chloride into her veins. A Michigan judge chose not to prosecute Kevorkian for murder, since the state has no laws against assisted suicide, but forbade him to use the machine again. By last week, Dr. Death had found a way around that injunction...
...sclerosis, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, suffered from a painful pelvic disease. While her husband watched, Wantz received a lethal injection from a device similar to the one Adkins used. Miller, attended by her best friend, suffocated on carbon monoxide breathed through a mask. Neither one was a patient of Kevorkian's, and neither was terminally ill. The doctor was present throughout, said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger. "He provided the expertise. He provided the equipment...
Public parks remain Kevorkian's preferred treatment centers. Adkins' suicide occurred in a rusting van parked in a campground; this time the two women were found dead in a cabin in the Bald Mountain recreation area, about 40 miles north of Detroit. Kevorkian himself called the police to report the fatalities. "The people were still hooked up to the machines when the sheriffs got there," said county sheriff sergeant Dale Romeo...
...Kevorkian vowed that he would use his machine again "under the correct circumstances." If he does, there may be little his opponents can do about it: murder charges brought against him for Mrs. Adkins' suicide were dismissed last December in part because Michigan has no law against physician-assisted suicide...