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Jack Kevorkian

Born

in Pontiac, Michigan, The United States

May 26, 1928

Died

June 03, 2011

Genre

Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body, Science

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Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime".

Beginning in 1999, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.

As an oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public. ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 207 ratings · 25 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Prescription Medicide 3.99 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	glimmerIQs by Jack Kevorkian, Kyle Torke (Editor), M. Stefan Strozier (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Any Kind of God 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When The People Bubble Pops: Man's Evil and Deadly Overpopulation by Jack Kevorkian, M. Stefan Strozier (Editor), Kyle Torke (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medical Research and the Death Penalty: A Dialogue 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slimmeriks and the Demi-Diet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amendment IX: Our Cornucopia of Rights it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La buena muerte. Los médicos y la Eutanasia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eutanasia La Buena Muerte 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A fail-safe model for justifiable medically-assisted suicide 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients’ dis-ease.”
― Jack Kevorkian, Prescription Medicide

tags: bioethics, euthanasia, good-death, medical-ethics

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“Dying is not a crime.”
― Jack Kevorkian

tags: euthanasia

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“When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.”
― Jack Kevorkian

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