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'Doctor death.' (Jack Kevorkian, physician who assisted suicides of three seriously ill women)

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Jack Kevorkian is a Michigan doctor who helped three seriously ill women commit suicide. Janet Adkins, an Oregon woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease was the first to die with the aid of Kevorkian's 'suicide device.' The device gives a patient lethal dose of sodium pentothal and potassium chloride. Two other women, Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz, also died using Kevorkian's device. Revelations of these deaths led to Kevorkian's suspension as a doctor and he is facing charges of murder for the deaths of Miller and Wantz.

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Physician-assisted suicide: mercy or murder?

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Eleven doctors have been charged with killing their terminally ill patients or relatives since 1935. None of the cases have resulted in prison terms, although two doctors were found guilty and one doctor committed suicide. Only one doctor, Jack Kevorkian, has ever been implicated in the assisted suicide of more than one patient. Charges against Kevorkian in the 1990 suicide of Janet Adkins were dropped, but murder charges against Kevorkian for the assisted suicides of Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz are still pending.

Physicians, Medical professions

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Does embryonic stem cell research amount to murder?

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Senator Sam Brownback and Senator Byron Dorgan express their views on destroying of the human embryo for the sake of research.

United States, Political aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Legislators, Brownback, Sam, Dorgan, Byron L., Senators, Stem cell research

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