A right to die activist, most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. In each of the cases, the individuals themselves allegedly took the final action which resulted in their own deaths. Kevorkian allegedly assisted only by attaching the individual to a euthanasia device that he had made. The individual then pushed a button which released the drugs or chemicals that would end his or her own life.
Kevorkian was tried numerous times for assisting suicides.Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.
Famously quoted "dying is not a crime."
Kevorkian has appeared on several shows and has had cultural references made to him in many sitcoms and movies.
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