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5. ARCHIVE - Doctor Kevorkian

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The Crusade for the Terminally Ill to Die With Dignity

Jack Kevorki's life didn't revolve around his crusade for the terminally ill to die with dignity. The traditional method of assisted suicide involved injecting the patient, something that the doctor would have to do himself and thereby leave himself responsible for what the courts would likely consider murder. Admittedly, he was also hellbent on not becoming one of his own patients someday. He had watched his mother die a gruesome drawn out death of which her doctor refused to expedite. What he needed now was a way for them to go under their own power.

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