Kevorkian-Assisted Death Is a Homicide
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The latest person Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped die was poisoned by an intravenous injection, making her death a homicide, the Oakland County medical examiner ruled in Pontiac, Mich. Dr. L. J. Dragovic, medical examiner, said 59-year-old Elizabeth Mertz suffered from some motor neuron disease, but was not terminally ill when she died. Kevorkian said that Mertz suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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