Kevorkian Essay

Jack Kevorkian is one of America's most controversial people. Since 1989 he has aided in the death of over one hundred people, some as young as twenty-one. Kevorkian has used three methods for assisting in the suicides of his "patients". His original death machine was "execution by lethal injection, except you do it yourself." This death machine was simply a metal pole with bottles containing drug solutions. A needle was inserted into the arm of the "…

…p. A13 33 "Kevorkian Assists Another," Detroit Free Press, 2/16/93. 34 "California Suspends Kevorkian's License," Los Angeles Times, 4/28/93 35 "Kevorkian helps 12th patient end life," Detroit Free Press, 2/9/93 36 "Suicide may be murder," Detroit Free Press, 2/6/93 37 Washington voters defeated Initiative 119 in 1991, Californians turned down Proposition 161 in 1992 38 "Physician-Assisted Death: Is This Measure the Answer?" Los Angeles Times, 10/14/92 and "The Chronicle Recommends," San Francisco Chronicle, 10/29/92 39 "NO on 161" campaign material from both organizations 40 "Death by Doctor," 60 Minutes, 11/22/98 41 Ibid. 42 Detroit Free Press, 11/26/98 43 NY Times, 3/27/99