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To the Editor: Analyses of data from Oregon^1,2 and elsewhere^3,4,5 have begun to clarify the characteristics of patients who seek a physician's assistance with suicide or euthanasia. We report on a descriptive clinical analysis of the 69 persons who died with the assistance of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in Oakland County, Michigan, between 1990 and 1998. Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, assisted in the deaths of over 100 people. In 1999, he was sent to prison after being convicted of second-degree murder. We analyzed data from the medical examiner's files, including autopsy findings, for the 69 deaths that were investigated by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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