Search results
In a small conference room at the Vista St. Clair Apartments in Portland Tuesday night, the family of Janet Elaine Adkins sat with tightly controlled emotions and talked about why the 54-year-old ...
Jun 3, 2011 · Kevorkian’s first patient — or victim, depending on your point of view — was Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Portland, Ore., housewife who allowed herself to be hooked up to one of Kevorkian’s ...
Apr 4, 1999 · Retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian's assistance in the suicide of Janet Adkins, in June of 1990, did more than any other single action to make assisted suicide a hot button issue in the United States. Ironically, Dr Kevorkian's conviction last month on charges of second degree murder in Pontiac, Michigan, will probably have little if any impact ...
- Howard Brody
- 1999
Jack Kevorkian. 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.
Jun 3, 2011 · On June 4, 1990, Janet Adkins, an Oregon teacher who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, was the first patient to avail herself of Dr. Kevorkian’s assistance. Mrs. Adkins’s life ended on the ...
Media attention led the first of his medicide clients, Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s, to contact him. In 1990, Kevorkian assisted Adkins in ending her life on a bed inside his 1968 Volks-wagen van parked in a campground near his home in Michigan. He then called the police, who arrested and briefly detained him.
People also ask
Did Jack Kevorkian help Janet Adkins die?
What happened to Dr Kevorkian?
How old was Jack Kevorkian when he died?
Did Jack Kevorkian leave a 'deadly legacy'?
