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Essay on Trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Dr. Kevorkian helped so many people die in 1998 that sometimes problems arose in trying to depose of bodies. While dropping off a body at Beaumont Hospital on May 7, 1998, a scuffle took place between Kevorkian and the Royal Oak police. He was arrested and later convicted of resisting arrest and obstructing police officers (Kurt, 2000).
In the late 1980s Kevorkian built a machine that helped people commit suicide by giving them a narcotic followed by a lethal dose of potassium chloride. Kevorkian found his first client in Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer's patient from Portland, Ore., in 1990. Since then, he has helped at least 130 people kill themselves.
This was the first time Kevorkian had been convicted of any charges connected to an assisted suicide. He had already purportedly assisted over 100 persons to commit suicide. He demanded that District Judge Daniel Sawicki send him to jail. The judge ordered that he either spent 60 days in jail or had to pay a $900 fine. Kevorkian’s lawyer convinced him to pay the fine.
Kevorkian, at 70 years of age, was realizing that he was quickly running out of time in getting assisted suicide legalized. It was written that as Kevorkian paid his fine, he stated to reporters present, “We need a felony conviction now. That’s the only way we’re going to get anywhere with this.”
Kevorkian committed that felony on September 17, 1998, when he caused the death of Thomas Youk, a 52 year old man suffering from the advanced stages of Lou Gehrig’s. Mr. Youk’s condition prevented him from being able to actually “push the button” on the suicide machine (Carol, 2000). It has been reported that Thomas Youk want to die in this way rather than to risk choking to death from his condition....
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