jack kevorkian

For years, I covered the assisted suicide crusade of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who became internationally famous in the 1990s. Today, we tend to remember his…

State Representative Tom Cochran, a Democrat from the Lansing suburb of Mason, has introduced a “Death with Dignity” act to allow terminally ill people to…

Twenty years ago, before he was finally sent to prison, I asked Dr. Jack Kevorkian whether he thought physician-assisted suicide would ever be legal…

He became known to the world as “Dr. Death.” His first so-called “medicide” happened in the Detroit area in 1990.From that point, Michigan pathologist Dr.…

There was a report on Michigan Radio’s Stateside program two days ago that revealed that while nine out of 10 of us want to have an end-of-life…

The papers of the controversial Dr. Jack Kevorkian are now open to the public at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.The collection…

Bill Haney has spent many years in communications and book publishing in Michigan. His new memoir What They Were Thinking: Reflections of Michigan…

I will be sixty-three years old in three months, and this was the first morning since I was three that I woke up and John Dingell wasn’t a member of…

Two days ago, my eyes fell on a poignantly written column by a gallant woman who I felt I knew, though we’ve never met.Sherri Muzher lives in the…

Twenty years ago, Jack Kevorkian went on trial for the first time for assisted suicide charges in Wayne County Circuit Court. In one sense, it was the…