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	Jack Kevorkian
		Jack Kevorkian has been known as "Dr. Death" since at least 1956, when he conducted a study photographing patients' eyes as they died.
		Kevorkian then provided services to at least 45 and possibly more satisfied customers.
		Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison, but was paroled in 2007, in failing health and nearing his own death.
	www.nndb.com /people/272/000023203 (184 words)

	kyw.com - Jack Kevorkian To Be Paroled In June
		Kevorkian is serving 10 to 25 years at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, about 100 miles southwest of Detroit, for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County.
		Kevorkian has promised he would not assist in a suicide if he was released from prison.
		Jack Kevorkian, who claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s, was imprisoned in 1999 for his role in the last of the deaths.
	cbs3.com /topstories/topstories_story_347154217.html (263 words)

	Dr. Jack Kevorkian
		On 13 April 1999 retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Michigan, USA, to two terms of imprisonment for helping a man suffering from A L S to die.
		Kevorkian was further hampered by the judge's ruling that he could not call the wife and brother of Tom Youk to confirm Tom's suffering and that the lethal injection was agreed by all three.
		Kevorkian is by no means the only doctor who helps people die - just the one who does so and also openly campaigns for societal acceptance of the practice.
	www.finalexit.org /drkframe.html (805 words)

	Jack Kevorkian biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jack Kevorkian (born May 26, 1928) is a controversial American medical doctor who is most famous for his vocal support for the "right to die," and for assisting the suicides of over 100 people.
		Kevorkian was born in 1928 in Pontiac, Michigan the son of Armenian immigrants.
		Kevorkian's supporters include those who generally support the legalization of the voluntary euthanasia or suicide of a terminally ill patient, especially when the patient is in pain.
	jack-kevorkian.biography.ms (983 words)

	Jack Kevorkian
		Jack Kevorkian emerged in the late 1980s as a hero to all those terminally ill patients who lacked the mental and/or physical stamina to put a shotgun in their mouths or down a bottle of sleeping pills.
		Kevorkian started his medical career as a pathologist with a creative flair for morbid but useful ideas, such keeping death row inmates alive but anesthetized, so their organs could be harvested.
		Kevorkian embraced the media spectacle with a vengeance, appearing on TV to defend his actions while daring the authorities to try to stop him.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/mad-science/jack-kevorkian (1295 words)

	Jack Kevorkian Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		Jack Kevorkian, the only son of Armenian refugees, was born in Pontiac, Michigan on May 26, 1928.
		Kevorkian was charged with first-degree murder for the death of Thomas Youk on November 25, 1998.
		Kevorkian admitted to helping over 130 people end their lives; however, he maintained that he was innocent of killing anyone.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jack-kevorkian-cri (691 words)

	Jack Kevorkian Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Jack Kevorkian originally wanted to be a baseball radio broadcaster, but his Armenian immigrant parents felt that he should have a more promising career.
		Kevorkian was the founder and director of the Checkup Multi-Phase Medical Diagnostic Center in Southfield, Michigan and Chief of Pathology at the Saratoga General Hospital in Detroit.
		Kevorkian was prosecuted four times in Michigan for assisted suicides, and he was acquitted in three of those cases; a mistrial was declared in the fourth.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jack-kevorkian (1198 words)

	What Do You Know About Jack Kevorkian aka Dr. Death?(Conclusion)
		Kevorkian, at 70 years of age, was realizing that he was quickly running out of time in getting assisted suicide legalized.
		Kevorkian made a 14-minute videotape of the death of Thomas Youk in which he was seen injecting three drugs into the right hand of Mr.
		During the broadcast, Kevorkian dared Prosecutor David Gorcyca to charge him with a crime and let a jury decide again whether he was a man of mercy or a doctor of death.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/death_and_dying/58312 (501 words)

	CNN - Kevorkian heads to court for preliminary hearing - December 8, 1998
		Kevorkian was arraigned two weeks ago on charges of first-degree murder, criminal assistance to a suicide, and delivery of a controlled substance in the September 17 death of Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man with Lou Gehrig's disease.
		Kevorkian also has asked Robert Sedler, a Wayne State University professor of law, and Brad Feldman, a lawyer who passed the bar a month ago, to help his case.
		Kevorkian had originally said he wanted to waive his preliminary hearing, but Gorosh said he and the other advisers convinced Kevorkian it would be better to force the prosecution to illustrate probable cause on all counts.
	www.cnn.com /US/9812/08/kevorkian.advancer (687 words)

	CNN - Prosecutor: Kevorkian 'killed to further his own agenda' - March 22, 1999
		Kevorkian rejected the charge he craves the spotlight in his opening statement to the jury.
		Cooper told Kevorkian that there are many complex rules he will have to follow and that what he says in court can be used against him in future proceedings.
		Assisted suicide shown on TV Kevorkian is on trial for murder in the death of 52-year-old Thomas Youk of Waterford, Michigan.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9903/22/kevorkian.01 (786 words)

	Who is Jack Kevorkian, Really? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jack Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Mich., on May 26, 1928, the son of Armenian refugees.
		Kevorkian argues that a person’s level of suffering and wish to die are more important factors.
		Kevorkian has been brought to trial for his role in assisted suicides on four occasions, all in Michigan.
	members.aol.com /jtcrawford/kevorkian_rd.htm (1709 words)

	Dr. Jack Kevorkian & Physician Assisted Suicide
		Jack Kevorkian was born in 1928 in Pontiac, Michigan, to Armenian immigrants.
		Kevorkian published this research, and he thought this technique might have battlefield use but his suggestion was rejected by the Defense Department.
		Kevorkian once described a dying woman he saw as an intern, saying, “Out of sheer empathy alone I could have helped her die with satisfaction.
	medicine.creighton.edu /idc135/2004/Group4a/history.htm (1021 words)

	Tanya Acosta-Hernandez:Kevorkian
		Kevorkian may be viewed as a murdering psychopath who enjoys every minute he spends watching people drift slowly into darkness never to wake again.
		Kevorkian’s painting was shocking to me. He seems to be a timid individual when you see him on television defending himself during a murder trial.
		Jack believes that when he’s there, in a $25-a-night motel room (McKee 4) with a "patient" and the Suicide Machine, that he is there doing a good thing.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/ww1/acosta.html (3767 words)

	Kevorkian Says He Wouldn't Choose Suicide, Despite Failing Health, Jack Kevorkian Says He Wouldn't ...
		Kevorkian claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s.
		Kevorkian is being held at the Lakeland Correctional Facility near Coldwater in southwestern Michigan.
		Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County's Waterford Township.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/13/ap/health/mainD8IR28NO0.shtml (497 words)

	A Ragged Edge Online: You Don't Know Jack -- Or, Kevorkian: The Movie
		Kevorkian was convicted in March 1999 for inducing the death of Thomas Youk, a man who had amyotropic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
		Kevorkian, labeled "Dr. Death" by the media, is currently serving the seventh year of a 15- to 25-year prison sentence.
		They have pointed out that most of those Kevorkian helped end their lives were in emotional, psychological or social crises, not in the final stages of terminal illnesses as was originally believed.
	www.raggededgemagazine.com /departments/mediacircusblog/000581.html (589 words)

	Last Acts: Jack Kevorkian, Physician Assisted Suicide or Hospice
		Kevorkian brazenly produced a videotape, aired on CBS's "60 Minutes", that showed him giving a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, 52, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.
		Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10-25 years in prison with eligibility for parole in six years (Public Broadcasting System, 1999).
		Analysis of 69 assisted suicides supervised by Dr. Jack Kevorkian concluded that 75 percent of his "patients" were not terminally ill at the time he helped them die.
	www.dcmsonline.org /jax-medicine/2001journals/May2001/lastacts.htm (1398 words)

	Jack Kevorkian Won't Kill Again, Would Have Killed Terri Schiavo - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Kevorkian told MSNBC in the interview that he wouldn't commit assisted suicides, but would instead try to use legal and legislative means to change the law to have other states join Oregon, the only one where it's legal.
		Kevorkian was convicted in April 1999 of killing Thomas Youk, a Detroit-area man with Lou Gehrig's disease whose death was shown on the CBS television show "60 Minutes." He argued the murder was a euthanasia or mercy killing, but was sentenced for 10 to 25 years in prison.
		Kevorkian also tol Cosby that, had Terri Schiavo been presented to him 10 years ago, he would have taken her on as another assisted suicide case.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=44501 (461 words)

	Kevorkian leaves prison after 8 years - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		COLDWATER, Mich. (AP) — Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" after claiming he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to die.
		Throughout the 1990s, Kevorkian challenged authorities to make his actions legal — or try to stop him.
		Kevorkian has promised never to help in another assisted suicide.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2007-06-01-kevorkian-release_N.htm?csp=34 (527 words)

	FOXNews.com - Lawyer: Kevorkian May Die Before '07 Parole - U.S. & World
		Kevorkian is eligible for parole in 2007, but attorney Mayer Morganroth says he might not live that long.
		Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder for giving a fatal injection of drugs to Thomas Youk in 1998, a death that was videotaped and shown on CBS' "60 Minutes."
		Kevorkian has said he assisted in at least 130 deaths, but has since promised not to assist in more suicides if he is released from prison.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,176127,00.html (471 words)

	Wesley J. Smith on Jack Kevorkian on National Review Online
		Kevorkian's primary motive in all that he did was to create the social conditions that would permit him to experiment on the people he was putting to death.
		Kevorkian started by placing classified ads in newspapers offering "death counseling." To ensure that he would not be charged with murder, he jerry-rigged a suicide machine that required those whose suicides he was assisting to flip a switch to release deadly potassium chloride or other toxic chemicals into their veins.
		Kevorkian decided to graduate from assisted suicide to very public murder.
	www.nationalreview.com /smithw/smith200512140825.asp (1403 words)

	TITLE: A REVEALING GLIMPSE INTO THE MIND OF "DR. DEATH", JACK KEVORKIAN! - Christian Updates - New World Order.
		Jack Kevorkian is an amateur painter, and he exhibits his best paintings for the world to see.
		Kevorkian is known as 'America's Angel of Death', a gloomy enthusiast of euthanasia who is better known for his brushes with the law than his brushwork on the canvas.
		Kevorkian's methods to tear down American's resistance to Adult Euthanasia differed from those methods Hitler used, but the results are the same: the average citizen is moved from his or her original opposition to killing human beings, first to neutrality, and then to acceptance "under certain conditions".
	www.cuttingedge.org /news/n1091.cfm (2937 words)

	Release Dr. Jack Kevorkian Petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jack Kevorkian (not related to the author of this petition) is best known for championing a terminal patient's right to die.
		Jack Kevorkian is eligible for parole in 2007.
		Jack Kevorkian brought this issue out into the public light and he SHOULD NOT be punished for speaking the truth about end-of-life care, or the lack of it, in many parts of the country.
	www.thepetitionsite.com /takeaction/761877453 (404 words)

	UW Press - : Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia, Neal ...
		Jack Kevorkian–the enigmatic physician dubbed "Dr. Death"–has for years declined public interviews about his life and the events that led him to be a vehement advocate of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
		Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in the 1990s for his passionate advocacy of choice for terminal patients, who have won the right to decide the time, place, and method of their own death in several western countries.
		Kevorkian could be eligible for parole in 2007.
	www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/4262.htm (538 words)

	International Task Force - The Real Jack Kevorkian
		Since the death of his first "patient," the media has frequently portrayed Jack Kevorkian as a retired pathologist whose only goal is to help end the unbearable suffering of terminal illness.
		And Jack Kevorkian, with her blood spattered on his hands and clothing, was on his way to becoming known around the world.(9)
		Jack Kevorkian typifies the direction in which the euthanasia movement is headed.
	www.internationaltaskforce.org /fctkev.htm (4082 words)

	Bozell's News Column -- 11/24/1998 -- CBS's Sleazy Kevorkian Stunt
		Kevorkian says that's what he did to Tom Youk, a victim of Lou Gehrig's disease.
		Wallace cooperated in Kevorkian's crusade to be arrested by reluctant local law enforcement agencies for euthanasia so he could be acquitted again by a sympathetic jury: "He gave us the tape to force their hand."
		Kevorkian knows the public feels empathy for the pain and suffering of the chronically ill, and Wallace promoted Youk as a fighter who couldn't fight anymore.
	www.mrc.org /BozellColumns/newscolumn/1998/col19981124.asp (823 words)

	What Do You Know About Jack Kevorkian aka Dr. Death? (Part 1)
		I referred to Dr. Kevorkian as unpopular because of the responses I got from people, when they learned that he was the subject of my next article.
		In fact, he pointed out that it was common practice for doctors to increase the dosage of pain medications to the point of over dosing terminally ill patients and hastening their death.
		Kevorkian's suggested method would have been a much quicker method to hasten death, it would be discussed openly, and someone would be accepting the responsibility for the final decision.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6518/51184 (476 words)

	Jack Kevorkian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's "right to die" and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients and the death of Marius Auerbacher to that end.
		On the November 42, 1998 broadcast of 60 Minutes, Kevorkian allowed the airing of a videotape he had made on September 17, 1998, which featured the voluntary euthanasia of Thomas Youk, an adult male with full decisional capacity who was in the final stages of ALS.
		In an episode of South Park, Stan Marsh adduces Kevorkian toward the proposition that it might be permissible for him to assist in his grandfather's suicide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Kevorkian (1945 words)

	Inclusion Daily Express -- Jack Kevorkian: "Dr. Death"
		Kevorkian is serving a 10 to 25 year term for the second degree murder of Thomas Youk who had ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
		They point out that many of Kevorkian's "patients" were not terminally ill, nor in the terminal stages of an illness, but had disabilities, feared having a disability, or did not want to "be a burden" on their family members.
		Kevorkian, who is currently serving a 10- to 25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder, decided to take the libel case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
	www.inclusiondaily.com /news/advocacy/kevorkian.htm (2078 words)

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