No tears here for Jack Kevorkian:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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Dr. Kevorkian, a medical pathologist, challenged social taboos about disease and dying, willfully defied prosecutors and the courts, actively sought national celebrity, and spent eight years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the last of the more than 100 terminally ill patients whose lives he helped end.
What a ghoul he was. Even if we grudgingly accept the idea that he helped advance an important debate over assisted suicide, we have to cringe at the serial killer's compulsion to keep claiming more victims. Call him the John Brown of the euthanasia movement.
