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- THE WEEK, Page 29SOCIETYThere Goes Dr. Death Again
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- Jack Kevorkian aids in the suicide of another critically ill
- woman
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- Although his State Medical License was suspended last year,
- Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan continues to make his own bizarre
- kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that
- have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past
- two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman
- suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale
- a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford,
- Michigan.
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- This time, however, Kevorkian (ghoulishly nicknamed Jack
- the Reaper) faced no immediate legal action, since the
- prosecutor in Oakland County, where all the deaths have taken
- place, declined to press homicide charges. Prosecutor Richard
- Thompson cited the fact that his past efforts have all been
- overturned by state courts. In the meantime, Kevorkian is free
- to pursue his suicide-assistance practice, unless the state
- legislature takes action. That seemed more likely last week,
- when Michigan lawmakers reacted to the latest death by finally
- moving toward passage of a bill that could criminalize all
- assisted suicides by next spring.
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- By contrast, Michigan law has banned the death penalty for
- 146 years.
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