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- <text id=93TT1126>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Outlawing Dr. Death
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- SOCIETY
- Outlawing Dr. Death
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Michigan tries again to put the brakes on the suicide specialist
- </p>
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- <p> For two years and 15 deaths, Dr. Jack Kevorkian thumbed his
- nose at Michigan officials. But the authorities have begun to
- strike back. Last Thursday the state legislature rushed through
- a law banning physician-assisted suicide, which the Governor
- quickly signed.
- </p>
- <p> Hours later, police searched Kevorkian's Royal Oak apartment
- looking for evidence that the doctor may have killed his 13th
- patient, Hugh Gale, against his will. Operation Rescue, a pro-life
- group that has opposed Kevorkian, gave police a report fished
- out of his aide's garbage. The document, which Kevorkian had
- signed, suggests that Gale twice asked that the carbon monoxide-supplying
- mask be removed. The second time, Kevorkian left the mask on
- until Gale died. Oakland County prosecutor Richard Thompson
- said the report takes the death "out of the realm of assisted
- suicide and puts it into the realm of attempted homicide." Gale's
- widow and Kevorkian's lawyer denied that Gale had lost his desire
- to die, contending that he had only halted the procedure once
- because he was hot.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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