Jack Kevorkian the Dr Death is Dead

Detroit,May,3:Jack Kevorkian, 83 years old American doctor which is famously known as “Dr. Death” because of his lifelong crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide died on at  Detroit area hospital,  as the Associated Press reported. Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Armenian immigrants. His father Levon was born in the village of Passen, near the ancient Armenian city of Garin.

Dr. Kevorkian spent their most of the time campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia. He served eight years in prison and was arrested several times for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide between 1990 and 2000, carbon monoxide and using injections, his infamous suicide device, made from scraps for $30. Those he aided had terminal conditions such as multiple sclerosis, ALS and malignant brain tumors.

When asked in a 2010 interview by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about how it felt to take a patient’s life, Dr. Kevorkian said, “I didn’t do it to end a life. I did it to end the suffering the patient’s going through. The patient’s obviously suffering — what’s a doctor supposed to do, turn his back?”

Dying, he believed, should be an intimate and dignified process, something that many terminally ill are denied, he said.

He received a fair amount of support from other medical practitioners across the globe, but most believed he was an extremist. In 1995, a group of doctors in Michigan publicly voiced their support for Dr. Kevorkian’s philosophy stating that they supported a “merciful, dignified, medically assisted termination of life.”