Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (/kᵻˈvɔːrkiən/; May 26, 1928– June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was often portrayed in the media as "Dr. Death"; however, many consider him a hero as he helped set the platform for reform. He famously said, "Dying is not a crime."
In 1999, Kevorkian was arrested and tried for his direct role in a case of voluntary euthanasia. He was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer advice nor participate nor be present in the act of any type of suicide involving euthanasia to any other person; as well as neither promote nor talk about the procedure of assisted suicide.
As an oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public.
"The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, you'd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldn't be strident?"
"[The prosecutor] calls it a crime, a murder, a killing, ... I call it a medical service. Youk came to me and said, 'Please help me.' The aim was a final solution to incurable agony."
"All we have to do to solve the whole controversy is have the medical profession come forward (and) lay the guidelines down, ... The guidelines say only certain doctors can do it, and if you don't, we're going to punish you."
"I intended to do my duty. Not murder,"
"This could never be a crime no matter what words are written on paper... just like it was never a crime to drink beer, even though words on paper said it was, and that women were too dumb to vote,"
"the public can tolerate a Nazi America."
"I did, ... But it could be manslaughter, not murder. It's not necessarily murder. But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what it is. This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened."
"Either they go or I go,"
"I don't think that Dr. Kevorkian, by martyring himself, does anybody any good,"
"Either they go or I go, ... If I'm acquitted, they go, because they know they'll never convict me. If I'm convicted, I will starve to death in prison, so I will go."
Jack Kevorkian was a “zealot,” Pacino writes, but he means it admiringly. “You Don’t Know Jack” (2010) dives into the life of the man who fought endlessly and heedlessly for the right to assisted ...
He was straightforward to the point of being blunt and was always a good quote ...Death” — that is until Michigan doctor Jack Kevorkian, who was known for assisting suicides, was branded with the nickname and, according to Nichols, “screwed it up.” ... Jan.
No one has yet used it - yet. Read More ... An earlier suicide device called the Thanatron that delivered a killer dose of drugs intravenously, invented by controversial pathologist Jack Kevorkian, was first used in 1990... Read More ... Read More. BREAKING NEWS.
I don’t do outrage often, because, frankly, I don’t think I do it well ... To quote W.B ... Just when you thought the party couldn’t become more satanically barbaric, they summon the ghost of Jack Kevorkian’s van for a grisly sequel.
1.” “Description of Item. One 9mm.” “Offense. Homicide.” ... There was 14-year-old Hana St ... Among them was John Skrzynski, “the godfather” of Michigan prosecutors who’d convicted Jack Kevorkian, the pioneer of physician-assisted suicide known as “Dr ... ...
Jack Kevorkian advocated and carried out? ... The device’s inventor was a retired pathologist named Jack Kevorkian ... It was the beginning of an eight-year crusade in which Kevorkian would claim to have helped 130 patients end their lives.
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McLeod was a student of the famed French mime, Marcel Marceau, who had already performed to an appreciative crowd at the Opera House... 781 BC ... Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die. .
Chicago Tribune
04 Jun 2024
Chicago Tribune
04 Jun 2024