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<text id=92TT1156>
<title>
May 25, 1992: Doctor Death's Visit
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 23
SOCIETY
Doctor Death's Visit
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<p>A Detroit pathologist helps end a "meaningless" life
</p>
<p> Already facing a murder trial for his role in the suicides of
two chronically ill women in October, Jack Kevorkian has again
charged into the center of the debate over physician-assisted
death. According to Geoffrey Fieger, his lawyer, the Detroit
doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her
side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered
carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple
sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life,
for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He
insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine, had
not assisted in the death. Fieger said Kevorkian would turn
himself over to the authorities if asked, but cautioned, "He
will starve himself in prison. You can count on him ending his
life in prison."
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</body></article>
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