http://reason.com/blog/2007/06/01/dr-death-free-at-last

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Dr. Death, Free at Last!

Assisted-suicide superstar Jack Kevorkian is getting sprung from the Michigan pokey after a decade. Kevorkian was found guility of second-degree murder in a 1998 death and has claimed to have assisted in around 130 suicides over the years.

Whatever your position on assisted suicide is, I suspect we can all agree: Kevorkian was creepy with a capital K.

And, as I argued in a 1999 Suck piece as his trial was unfolding, he was an absolute idiot to act as his own lawyer (thereby joining the ranks of Charles Manson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Colin Ferguson).

Reason Contributing Editor Thomas Szasz puts the pillow over Kevorkian's medicalization of suicide here.

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