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Kevorkian, Jack

From The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America
Murad "Jack" Kevorkian (1928–2011) was the second of three children, and the only boy born to Levon and Satenig Kevorkian of Pontiac, Michigan. Although the Kevorkian family was very religious and went to church on a regular basis, Jack was unable to blindly follow the doctrine of faith that he believed Christianity required. He constantly questioned his teachers, and by the age of 12, he had given up on attending church entirely. However, where Kevorkian failed as an obedient Christian, he more than succeeded as an academic. The same critical mind that would not allow him to accept things on faith continued to aid him in school, to the point where he was considered by his peers to be more intelligent than many of his professors. By age 17, he had graduated with honors from Pontiac High School and been admitted to the University of Michigan. Although Kevorkian originally intended to become a civil engineer, he found the topic too "boring" and soon had his sights set on medical school. …
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Full text Article Kevorkian, Jack (1928–2011)

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
A self-described “obitiatrist” (practitioner of medical killing), retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian forced a national debate during the 1990s on the issues of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in general. Offering the terminally ill a “painless, dignified alternative” to drawn-out dying, …
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Full text Article Kevorkian, Jack (1928 - )

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
Jack Kevorkian (AP/Wide World Photos)
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Dr. Death,” became well known in the 1990s for his fight to make assisted suicide a right for every person. A retired pathologist who devised a “suicide machine,” Dr. Kevorkian worked to help terminally ill people end their lives. His belief was that people have a…
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Full text Article Euthanasia

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
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Euthanasia, which in Greek means “easy or good death,” is the act of killing an incurably ill person out of concern and compassion for that person’s suffering. It is sometimes called mercy killing, but many advocates of euthanasia define mercy killing more precisely as the ending of another person’s…
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Full text Article Assisted Suicide

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
In 1997, the United States Supreme Court clearly established in two related cases that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide . In the case of Washington v. Glucksberg , 521 U.S. 702 (1997), the parties presented the Supreme Court with the question of whether a law…
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Full text Article Right to Die

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
Whether people have a right to die is one of the most controversial issues in modern American society. The right-to-die movement is a political and legal campaign that seeks respect for the desires of terminal, suffering, or persistently vegetative individuals, and to empower them (or their…
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Full text Article Kevorkian, Jack

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born May 26, 1928, Pontiac, Mich., U.S.—died June 3, 2011, Royal Oak, Mich.) U.S. pathologist, advocate and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide. He expressed early interest in experimentation on death-row inmates who had been rendered unconscious rather than executed; his ideas negatively…
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Full text Article Armenian Americans

From Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
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Armenian Americans are immigrants or descendants of people from the Republic of Armenia, a country located in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Armenia is bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan, and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey. Located on the northeastern portion…
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From Opinions Throughout History: Voters' Rights
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