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...topic is likely to be more controversial, or more au courant, in coming years than death. And Jack Kevorkian will not have the last word. Dr. Daniel Tobin's views of dying as a natural part of living were shaped when, as a third-year medical student, he watched a frail, 88-year-old man, near death, plead unsuccessfully with doctors to go home rather than face another battery of invasive tests. Tobin went on to found the FairCare program for peaceful dying in Albany, N.Y. His new book is Peaceful Dying: The Step-by-Step Guide to Preserving Your...
...KEVORKIAN'S ONE-MAN COURT...
...administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient [NATION, Dec. 7], Dr. Jack Kevorkian should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In his stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly breathe and struggled desperately. A medical technician repeatedly came by to see me, and at one point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects...
...Jack Kevorkian finally got what he wanted on Wednesday. A Michigan district judge ordered the infamous Dr. Death to stand trial on charges of first-degree murder for last month's televised euthanasia of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian, who had dared prosecutors to charge him, will have to defend himself on murder, assisted suicide and controlled substance charges for the lethal injection of Youk, which was broadcast on "60 Minutes...
...judge's decision to proceed had been expected, says TIME writer Adam Cohen. "Consent is not a defense to murder," he says. "Kevorkian wants to challenge the law by pursuing jury nullification," says Cohen -- that is, the doctor hopes the jury will refuse to convict even in the face of overwhelming evidence. Not that an acquittal would overturn the law -- only the legislature can do that. But if Michigan jurors send a signal to state law enforcement that they don't want euthanasia cases prosecuted, Kevorkian -- and anyone else -- would be free to help terminally ill residents end their lives...