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Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. He became known as Dr. Death. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who helped dozens of ill people commit suicide, died Friday at age 83 in a Detroit hospital. He launched a nationwide divisive debate over assisted suicide. And Kevorkian had Northwest connection. In 1990 he helped an Oregon woman who had Alzheimer’s committ suicide. Read these stories from The Oregonian:Carroll Rehmke answered the phone Friday at home in Bellevue, Wash., sounding not at all surprised to hear a newspaper reporter’s voice on the other end of the line.”You’re calling about Jack?” asked Rehmke, a retired King County judicial assistant.When Janet Elaine Adkins flipped the switch on the lethal-injection machine that killed her Monday, she ignited a life-and-death debate that rippled out from the rural Michigan campground through the national medical community.In a small conference room at the Vista St. Clair Apartments in Portland Tuesday night, the family of Janet Elaine Adkins sat with tightly controlled emotions and talked about why the 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient had traveled more than 2,000 miles to kill herself with a lethal-injection machine. Her son Neil, whom Janet Adkins had recently beaten at a game of tennis, was asked whether he approved of his mother’s action.

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