Happy Birthday!
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Born 5/28/1928
6/4/1990: Kevorkian is present at the death of Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Portland, Oregon, woman with Alzheimer's disease, using the "suicide machine."
12/3/1992: Michigan bans assisted suicide to take effect on 3/30/1993.
May 10, 1994: Michigan Court of Appeals strikes down the state's ban.
November 5, 1997: Oregon residents vote to uphold the state's assisted suicide law – The Death with Dignity Act.
March 14, 1998: Kevorkian's 100th assisted suicide.
November 22, 1998: CBS's "60 Minutes" airs a videotape showing Kevorkian giving a lethal injection to Thomas Youk.
April 13, 1999: Convicted of second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance in the death of Youk, a Michigan judge sentences Kevorkian to 10-25 years in prison (eligible for parole in six years)
Mailing address: Dr. Jack Kevorkian # 284797, Thumb Correctional Facility, 3225 John Conley Dr, Lapeer, MI 48446-2987. From About.com & Michigan State Corrections web page: Jack Kevorkian
Please don't go slashing your jugular
And dripping all over the floor.
Don't cut your wrists at the bathroom sink
And cover the faucets with gore.
Just take a large dose of sleeping pills,
Then faint with your head down the loo.
Please leave the bathroom just as you found it,
For others are following you.
Just because you're a suicide. . .
"A Plea for Order" by Heather Wood, 1986.
ALSO:
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be,
The pains that are withheld for me,
I realize and I can see...
That suicide is painless,
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.
"Suicide Is Painless" (Mash Theme Song) by Mike Altman and Johnny Mandel
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