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.