Prescription: Medicide—The Goodness of Planned Death
Nonfiction work
By: Jack Kevorkian
Date: 1991
Source: Kevorkian, Jack. Prescription: Medicide—The Goodness of Planned Death. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991, 221–230.
About the Author: Jack Kevorkian (1928–) was born in Pontiac, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan School of Medicine and was granted his M.D. in 1952. After completing his internship at Pontiac General Hospital, he worked under the auspices of the Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, California for some twenty-five years. On November 25, 1998, Kevorkian was charged with murder, assisted suicide, and delivery of a controlled substance in the death of Thomas Youk. On March 26, 1999, he was convicted of second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance and was given a ten-to twenty-five-year sentence.
Introduction
Before Jack Kevorkian decided to assist terminally...
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