“Doctor Death” to visit Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - “Doctor Death” Jack Kevorkian, the controversial American doctor is arriving in Armenia today, March 9, well informed circles told PanARMENIAN.Net

“Doctor Death” Jack Kevorkian is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime."

Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2006, due to good behavior.