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Jack Kevorkian  

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  • In the summer of 1989, an unknown and disenfranchised doctor created a machine that would assist ill patients in ending their lives. The machine began by intravenous delivery of a saline solution into the patient's body. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; Jack Kevorkian]

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