Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the pathologist who has the nickname Dr. Death, died on June 3, 2011 at a hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Kevorkian was known for his crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide. He had aided in the deaths of 130 patients from 1990 to 2000. He spent decades campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia. He served eight years in prison from 1999-2007 and was arrested numerous times in helping the patients commit suicide. The methods he used in physician-assisted suicide were injections, carbon monoxide, and his infamous suicide machine, built from scraps for $30.00. Those in whose deaths that he aided had medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis, malignant brain tumors, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Kevorkian made the statement that dying should be an intimate and dignified process, something that termilly ill people are denied. To learn more about Dr. Kevorkian, click on the above link at NYTimes.com. Additional information was obtained from The Washington Post.
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