404. RIP Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011 was an American pathologist, assisted suicide 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 he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said "dying is not a crime".


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