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ALTHOUGH HIS STATE MEDICAL LICENSE WAS SUSpended last year, Dr. Jack Kevorkian % of Michigan continues to make his own bizarre kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford, Michigan...
This time, however, Kevorkian (ghoulishly nicknamed Jack the Reaper) faced no immediate legal action, since the prosecutor in Oakland County, where all the deaths have taken place, declined to press homicide charges. Prosecutor Richard Thompson cited the fact that his past efforts have all been overturned by state courts. In the meantime, Kevorkian is free to pursue his suicide- assistance practice, unless the state legislature takes action. That seemed more likely last week, when Michigan lawmakers reacted to the latest death by finally moving toward passage of a bill that could criminalize all assisted suicides by next spring...
...KEVORKIAN Is this some kind of grisly game...
Noting that the state of Michigan has no law barring physician-assisted suicide, a judge in Pontiac dismissed murder charges against Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, for his role in the death of two chronically ill women in 1991. Though the state senate has passed a bill that would make assisted suicide a felony, the house has yet to follow suit. "We have more consumer protection for people buying a car than we do for people making this type of decision," says state senator Fred Dillingham, the bill's sponsor...
ALREADY FACING A MURDER TRIAL FOR HIS ROLE IN the suicides of two chronically ill women in October, Jack Kevorkian has again charged into the center of the debate over physician-assisted death. According to Geoffrey Fieger, his lawyer, the Detroit doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life, for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine...