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- NATION, Page 45American NotesMICHIGANThe Return of Dr. Death
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- Jack Kevorkian -- a.k.a. Dr. Death -- may be back in
- business. Kevorkian, 62, a retired Michigan pathologist, gained
- national notoriety last year when he used his home-built
- suicide machine to help Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins kill
- herself. Last week, two days after Oakland County Circuit Judge
- Alice Gilbert issued a court injunction barring Kevorkian from
- using the suicide machine, he announced that he had counseled
- a dentist with cancer who was (and likely still is)
- contemplating using a similar machine of his own. Said
- Kevorkian: "I'm just testing the limits of the injunction."
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- Kevorkian vowed that he would use his machine again "under
- the correct circumstances." If he does, there may be little his
- opponents can do about it: murder charges brought against him
- for Mrs. Adkins' suicide were dismissed last December in part
- because Michigan has no law against physician-assisted suicide.
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