Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. “Dr Death”, has died at the age of 83 at a hospital in Michigan, USA. Dr Kevorkian helped more than 130 people who wanted to die to end their life. He was the world’s most famous “right to die” campaigner and he likened himself to Gandhi. Kevorkian spent decades arguing that assisted suicide was a human right. He was sent to prison for eight years in 1999 for helping seriously ill people kill themselves. After his release in 2007, he promised he would no longer assist in any more suicides.
Dr Kevorkian had many admirers and many critics. Many people described him as a cold-blooded killer. He hit the headlines in the 1990s with his homemade "suicide machine" that helped seriously ill people to end their own life. Others praised him for helping people. His lawyer Geoffrey Fieger said: “He was a rare human being who can single-handedly take on an entire society…and force it to focus on the suffering of other human beings." Oscar winner Al Pacino played Kevorkian in the 2010 movie, “You Don’t Know Jack”.
-breakingnewsenglish.com, June 4, 2011
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