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Jun 3, 2011 · By Nicholas Jackson. June 3, 2011. The pathologist known as Dr. Death for helping more than 100 patients commit suicide in the '90s built his own killing machine by hand. Jack Kevorkian,...
Rob Beschizza. Gear. Jun 1, 2007 11:33 AM. The Thanatron, Jack Kevorkian's Death Machine. Jack Kevorkian, the defrocked doc sent to jail after helping people kill themselves, was...
Murad Jacob " Jack " Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [2] . Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end.
He called the machine the Thanatron - 'death machine' in Greek. It was devised so that the patient could pull the trigger. It started with an intravenous drip of saline solution.
Jun 3, 2011 · He used a device of his own invention, a suicide machine that let the patient press a button delivering a fatal dose of drugs. In 1990, after his first assisted-suicide case, Kevorkian...
Jun 3, 2011 · Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate, died Friday at 83. Supporters say he was a compassionate caregiver who paid a steep price for helping chronically and terminally ill...
Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Scientists. Jack Kevorkian was a U.S.-based physician who assisted in patient suicides, sparking increased talk on hospice care and "right to die" legislative action. Updated: May 20,...
