Jack Kevorkian

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Birth Name: Jacob Kevorkian

Born: 26 May 1928 Died: 3 June 2011

Country of origin: United States

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Description: 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 said that he 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. As an oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian marketed limited quantit ... (more)