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- <text id=92TT1156>
- <title>
- May 25, 1992: Doctor Death's Visit
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- SOCIETY
- Doctor Death's Visit
- </hdr><body>
- <p>A Detroit pathologist helps end a "meaningless" life
- </p>
- <p> Already facing a murder trial for his role in the suicides of
- two chronically ill women in October, Jack Kevorkian has again
- charged into the center of the debate over physician-assisted
- death. According to Geoffrey Fieger, his lawyer, the Detroit
- doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her
- side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered
- carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple
- sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life,
- for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He
- insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine, had
- not assisted in the death. Fieger said Kevorkian would turn
- himself over to the authorities if asked, but cautioned, "He
- will starve himself in prison. You can count on him ending his
- life in prison."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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