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Editor's note. The following is reprinted with permission from Life At Risk, a publication of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Though more than a year old, what it reports is still worth reading.
A medical examiner from Oakland County, Michigan, and three researchers from the University of South Florida have studied key characteristics of 69 patients whose suicides were assisted by Jack Kevorkian between 1990 and 1998. Their findings were published in the [December 7, 2000,] New England Journal of Medicine.
According to medical examiner L.J. Dragovic and colleagues, autopsies show that only 25 percent of Kevorkian's clients were terminally ill when he helped them kill themselves. "Seventy-two percent of the patients had ...