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Michigan Women Plead Guilty to Attempted Assisted Suicide

A Michigan mother who helped her 19-year-old son kill himself pled guilty to attempted assisted suicide August 27. Kathleen Holey and her sister-in-law Mary Wendland, who helped Holey and who previously pled guilty, were the first to be convicted under the state's four-year-old ban passed to stop Jack Kevorkian.

According to the Associated Press (AP), Holey, 43, encouraged her son and daughter-in-law to commit suicide, filled a prescription for a powerful painkiller, drove them to an abandoned farmhouse April 9, and instructed them in how to use the drugs to kill themselves. Her son Patrick died ...