“This is a medical service. It always was.”

—  Jack Kevorkian

Quoted in "Physician-assisted death"‎ - Page 100 - by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder, Gregg A. Kasting - 1994
1990s, 1994

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American pathologist, euthanasia activist 1928–2011

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