Jack Kevorkian

 Jack Kevorkian Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the controversial assisted suicide advocate, has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. He said that nurses who preferred classical music plays Kevorkian, Johann Sebastian Bach, before his death, "reports AP. Kevorkian's attorney and friend, Mayer Morganroth, told The Associated Press that he died early Friday morning at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where Kevorkian had been hospitalized for kidney and respiratory problems. Kevorkian, an advocate of "right to die" legislation, dubbed "Dr Death" after a number of assisted suicides in the 1990's. The official cause of death Kevorkian is not yet known.He was released from a Michigan prison in 2007 after serving eight years of a 10 to 15-year sentence for second-degree murder. (Kevorkian was acquitted in three earlier trials; a fourth ended in a mistrial. In the 1999 case, Kevorkian administered a deadly combination of drugs to Thomas Youk, who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, the devastating neurodegenerative disease that can lead to paralysis. He was captured on video and broadcast on "60 Minutes." This is not necessarily murder, "Kevorkian said Mike Wallace, in an interview." But I do not mind if you give it. I know what it is. Kevorkian, who was trained as a pathologist, but stripped of his medical license, admitted to being present in at least 130 suicides of terminally ill patients between 1990 and 1999.He also developed a suicide machine, which according to WIRED, was essentially an automated drip hooked up to an IV needle that patients could personally trigger. Many groups and individuals were vehement in their opposition to Kevorkian and his views. In 1995, the American Medical Association called him a "reckless instrument of death" who "poses a great threat to the public," The New York Times reports. But others hailed Kevorkian as a hero. I think that Dr. Kevorkian was a man who tried to humanity, "said Frank Kavanaugh, a member of the Board of Directors of the Final Exit Network, a nonprofit organization and the right to die." It was a very controversial figure, but I think even the critics agree that, because hospice is really exploded in the United States. Kevorkian lawyer told the Detroit Free Press who was present at the time of his death, as was his nephew. It 'been peaceful, "he says." He did not feel anything. "