Jack Kevorkian

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of the controversial assisted suicide, has died in a hospital in the Detroit area, at the age of 83.

Kevorkian lawyer Mayer Morganroth, and friend, told The Associated Press that died the morning of Friday, William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where Kevorkian had been in hospital for respiratory and kidney problems.

“Says nurses of classical music performed by Kevorkian favorite, Johan Sebastian Bach, before dying,” reports the AP.

A cause of death of official Kevorkian is unknown.

Kevorkian, a lawyer of the law “right-to-die”, the nickname of “Dr. death” after a series of assisted suicide in the 1990s.

It came from a prison in Michigan in 2007 after eight years in prison a 10 to 15 years for second degree murder. Kevorkian was acquitted in three previous tests (a quarter ended in a criminal).

Kevorkian administered for 1999, a lethal combination of drugs to Thomas Youk, who suffered from the Lou Gehrig’s disease, the devastating neurodegenerative disease that can lead to paralysis. It was recorded on video and broadcast of “60 minutes”.
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“Is not necessarily murder,” Kevorkian Mike Wallace said in an interview. “But I don’t what is called”. “I don’t know what is.”

Kevorkian, who was qualified as a medical pathologist but stripped of his medical license, admitted to presenting in at least 130 suicides of patients between 1990 and 1999. Also developed a machine of suicide who, according to WIRED, essentially an automatic drip was connected with a needle of IV patients potentially personally.

Many groups and individuals were vehement in their opposition to Kevorkian and their views. In 1995, reports the American Medical Association called it a “reckless instrument of death” a serious threat “to the public,” The New York Times.

But Kevorkian others received as a hero.

“I think Dr. Kevorkian was a man who was looking for mankind,” said Frank Kavanagh, Member of the Governing Council of the final exit network, a not-for-profit and right-to-die. “It was a very controversial figure, but I think even the critics agree that’s why Hospice are really in the United States.”

Kevorkian lawyer told the Detroit Free Press, which at the time of his death, was his cousin.

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