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- <text id=93TT2383>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Death Potion No. 9
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 20
- Death Potion No. 9
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Facing legal prohibition, Dr. Kevorkian strikes again
- </p>
- <p> The face was familiar. Virginia Skeens, a resident of a rural
- section of Wayne County, Michigan, watched as a man she had seen
- on the evening news unloaded his paraphernalia at the home of
- her neighbor Jack Miller, 53, a tree trimmer who suffered from
- terminal bone cancer. "I knew," she later told reporters,
- "somebody was going to die."
- </p>
- <p> And someone did. Facing a March 30 state deadline
- specifically enacted to end his practice of medically assisting
- suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian and two helpers assembled the
- machinery that allowed Miller to do himself in. But this ninth
- "medicide" since 1990 offered some new twists: Miller was the
- first male to die and the first outside Kevorkian's former home
- territory of Oakland County. The message, said his attorney, was
- that Kevorkian would not only defy the impending Michigan ban
- but continue to expand his practice throughout the state to
- include anyone, anywhere, anytime.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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