Jack Kevorkian is best known as being an outspoken

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Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia

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By Neal Nicol (au); Harry Wylie (au)
Year: 2006
Pages: 273
Binding Paperback
ISBN 1904132820

Product Code: 1437968775

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Jack Kevorkian is best known as being an outspoken proponent of the right to die with dignity. He has revolutionized the way people think about living wills, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Born to Armenian immigrants in 1928, he grew up with tales of brutal genocide. He become a doctor and witnessed his mother’s long and painful death from cancer, Kevorkian determined to contribute to the fight to end human suffering and became a pathologist exploring the contours of death. In his 60s, Kevorkian began assisting the suicides of the terminally ill, enabling over 130 people to die with dignity. Today, he is in prison for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient. “The definitive work on a complicated and controversial man”. Ill.

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