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Article: Kevorkian, Jack
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Kevorkian, Jack
The pathologist Jack Kevorkian became the central figure in the physician-assisted death controversy in the United States, a controversy that has had ripple effects throughout the world. Born in 1928, Kevorkian was the son of refugees who escaped the Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1915. Many of the members of his mother's family and all of the members of his father's family were among the victims. The Kevorkians settled in Pontiac, Michigan, where his father worked in an automobile factory and his mother looked after Jack and his sisters Margo and Flora, who would assist him throughout the activism career he launched in his later adult years.
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Article: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian formally announces run for Congress
AP Worldstream;
March 25, 2008 ;
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...Jack Kevorkian, the assisted-suicide advocate who served eight years...announced he is running for Congress as an independent. Kevorkian, 79, is jumping into a competitive congressional race...district in suburban Detroit. I'm not a politician, Kevorkian said Monday, adding he is not tied to anybody or ...
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