NATION : Judge Bars Suicide Machine Use
A circuit judge today banned a doctor who invented a sucide device from using the machine, saying Jack Kevorkian was more interested in seeking publicity than in helping the terminally ill.
“His goal is self-service rather than patient service,” Judge Alice Gilbert said this morning in barring Kevorkian from using his device or from helping people commit suicide.
Janice Adkins, 54, an Alzheimer’s disease patient from Portland, Ore., died June 4 after she threw a switch on the machine, which pumped a fatal dose of drugs into her body.
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