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?

       [restored 8/26/2023]

Subsequent Events:

4/13/1999                   6/4/1999                   1/17/2006

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