Dr kevorkian cause of death
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Jack Kevorkian, convicted in assisted suicides, dies at 83
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the audacious Michigan pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" for his role in assisting the suicides of more than terminally ill people, died early Friday at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness.
Kevorkian, 83, died about a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan, close friend and prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth said.
Morganroth said it appears Kevorkian — who had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems — suffered a pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart, according to the Detroit Free Press.
"It was peaceful. He didn't feel a thing," Morganroth told the newspaper. According to the Associated Press, he said nurses played classical music by Kevorkian's favorite composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, before he died.
Morganroth says Kevorkian was conscious Thursday night and the two spoke about leaving the hospital and ge
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(CBS/AP) Jack Kevorkian has died, but the cause he long championed - physician-assisted suicide - lives on.
The ghoulish-but-folksy physician died Friday not by his own hand but at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., where he was being treated for pneumonia and kidney problems. He was
Kevorkian, nicknamed "Dr. Death," became an outspoken and often controversial proponent of patients' right to take their own lives, gaining international notoriety in a 60 Minutes interview, which showcased one of the suicides in which he participated.
"Somebody has to do something for suffering humanity," Kevorkian explained. "I put myself in my patients' place. This is something I would want."
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Among the patients whose suicide was Kevorkian facilitated was Janet Adkins, a year-old Portland, Ore. woman who died in after Kevorkin hooked her up to a "suicide machine" he had built using parts scavenged from flea markets. Altogether, Kevorkian helped
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Retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian's assistance in the suicide of Janet Adkins, in June of , did more than any other single action to make assisted suicide a hot button issue in the United States. Ironically, Dr Kevorkian's conviction gods month on charges of second grad murder in Pontiac, Michigan, will probably have little if any impact on the further progress of the American assisted suicide “movement.”
Already acquitted by juries three times on charges of assisting suicides, Kevorkian's actions this time led armchair psychiatrists to conclude that the self proclaimed “Dr Death” must have had his own death wish. He escalated his practice from assisting suicide to direkt mercy killing in the case of Thomas Youk, who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He prepared a film showing his every action and the exact moment of Youk's death, and appeared with the film on a national television news programme, daring the authorities to prosecute him. Brought to trial on murder