Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, ups the ante in the physician assisted suicide controversy by actively injecting 52-year-old Thomas Youk, dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, with a lethal dose of potassium chloride.
Question: Was this passive physician assisted suicide, second degree murder, or something else?
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
michigan constitution of 1963, article I, section 28
www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(n0nh5wjg4hf0ayuzon0ac5s1))/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=mcl-Article-I-23
Article IX of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
PEOPLE v. KEVORKIAN | FindLaw
caselaw.findlaw.com/mi-court-of-appeals/1372937.html