ASSISTED-SUICIDE ADVOCATE KEVORKIAN TO RUN FOR U.S. CONGRESS
CBC News
March 24 2008
Canada
Jack Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who loudly advocated
for assisted suicide, announced on Monday that he will run for a seat
in the U.S. Congress.
The 79-year-old claims to have helped at least 130 people die between
1990 to 1998 and was convicted of second-degree murder in one case,
for which he spent eight years behind bars.
He told reporters in Michigan that he has never been interested in
politics but was motivated to run as an independent for a congressional
seat representing Detroit’s suburbs.
"I have never been a political person. I have only voted once in
my life," Kevorkian said, during a rambling press conference in
Southfield in which he quoted everyone from Alexis de Toqueville and
Frederick Douglass.
Kevorkian has vowed not to help in any additional suicides.
The retired pathologist was released from jail in June 2007 and said
he had no regrets about conducting the assisted suicide.