As Kevorkian witnessed the suffering of terminally ill patients, he became
convinced that they had a moral right to end their lives when the pain became
unbearable, and that doctors should assist in this process. To that end, he
designed and constructed a machine that started a harmless saline intravenous
drip into the arm of a person wishing to die. When the patient was ready, he or
she would press a button that would stop the flow of the harmless solution and
begin a new drip of thiopental. This chemical would put the patient into a deep
sleep, then a coma. After one minute, the timer in the machine would send a
lethal dose of potassium chloride into the patient's arm, stopping the heart in
minutes. The patient would die of a heart attack while in a deep sleep. The
death, according to Kevorkian, would be quick, painless and easy. For a person
suffering from the pain of terminal cancer or some other disease, the machine
would provide what Kevorkian called a painless "assisted suicide."
but the man is a genius. . .
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