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<text id=91TT0337>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: American Notes:Michigan
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 45
American Notes
MICHIGAN
The Return of Dr. Death
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<p> Jack Kevorkian--a.k.a. Dr. Death--may be back in
business. Kevorkian, 62, a retired Michigan pathologist, gained
national notoriety last year when he used his home-built
suicide machine to help Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins kill
herself. Last week, two days after Oakland County Circuit Judge
Alice Gilbert issued a court injunction barring Kevorkian from
using the suicide machine, he announced that he had counseled
a dentist with cancer who was (and likely still is)
contemplating using a similar machine of his own. Said
Kevorkian: "I'm just testing the limits of the injunction."
</p>
<p> Kevorkian vowed that he would use his machine again "under
the correct circumstances." If he does, there may be little his
opponents can do about it: murder charges brought against him
for Mrs. Adkins' suicide were dismissed last December in part
because Michigan has no law against physician-assisted suicide.
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</body></article>
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