Word: wantz
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...Michigan judge has ruled that Jack Kevorkian must stand trial for assisting two suicides in 1991. Kevorkian faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine in the deaths of Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller. Miller, 48, who had multiple sclerosis, died after inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask. Wantz, who suffered from chronic pelvic pain, died after using a Kevorkian device that injected lethal drugs into her system. The trial is scheduled to begin April 1. Kevorkian was already scheduled to stand trial beginning February 12 for assisting two other suicides in Michigan...
...most recent recipients of his care were likewise from Michigan: Sherry Miller, 43, had multiple 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...
...Kevorkian last detonated the euthanasia debate, the public's craving for information has grown. The strangest best seller in memory still hovers at the top of the charts: Final Exit, by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, instructs people on how to die, or to kill. Last summer, Wantz said, she tried to follow the directions in the book. When she failed, she turned to Kevorkian...
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