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<text id=92TT2713>
<title>
Dec. 07, 1992: There Goes Dr. Death Again
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 29
SOCIETY
There Goes Dr. Death Again
</hdr><body>
<p>Jack Kevorkian aids in the suicide of another critically ill
woman
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> By contrast, Michigan law has banned the death penalty for
146 years.
</p>
</body></article>
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