Jack Kevorkian
Jacob Jack Kevorkian was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patients right to die via physicianassisted suicide he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was often portrayed in the media as Dr. Death however, many consider him a hero as he helped set the platform for reform. He famously said, Dying is not a crime.
Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on May 26, 1928, to Armenian immigrants. His father, Levon, was born in the village of Passen, near Erzurum, and his mother, Satenig, was born in the village of Govdun, near Sivas. His father moved from Turkey in 1912 and made his way to Pontiac, where he found work at an automobile foundry. Satenig fled the Armenian Genocide of 1915, finding refuge with relatives in Paris, and eventually reuniting with her brother in Pontiac. Levon and Satenig met through the Armenian community in their city, where they married and began their family. The couple had a daughter, Margaret, in 1926, followed by son Jack and, lastly, the third child, Flora.
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