Jack Kevorkian Dies - World News. Jack Kevorkian who have a degree as Dr. Death (death), died at the age of 83 years from heart disease and kidney. Kevorkian was known for having helped more than 130 patients with advanced illness by committing suicide (euthanasia).
As reported by Reuters on Saturday (04/06/2011), Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, where he was treated for 2 weeks.
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Jack Kevorkian became a controversial figure because often help patients who already do not have a life expectancy again to resort to suicide. On the one hand he is a hero for helping the suffering people, on the other hand he was labeled a cold-blooded killer.
"Doctor Jack Kevorkian is a rare human being," said Kevorkian lawyer Geoffrey Fieger.
Kevorkian euthanasia method was first practiced in 1990. At that time people with Alzheimer's disease ended his life with the help of Kevorkian design machines that make such patients can inject lethal drugs themselves.
Method 'efflux lives' ala Kevorkian could not be touched for years until in 1999. Kevorkian lost time due to the CBS broadcast a recording of Kevorkian was helping the process of euthanasia on one of his patients.
Because this case Kevorkian jailed 8 years. Following from prison in 2007, he promised not to practice again euthanasia.