Jack Kevorkian

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Born on May 26, 1928 in Pontiac, Michigan.

Jack Kevorkian was an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient’s right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that “dying is not a crime”^. Beginning in 1999 Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to any other person. An oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public.

Kevorkian died on June 3, 2011, at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He had been suffering from liver cancer.

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