KEVORKIAN HELPS MAN COMMIT SUICIDE IN MICH.

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, February 16, 1993                   TAG: 9302160058
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ROSEVILLE, MICH.                                LENGTH: Short
KEVORKIAN HELPS MAN COMMIT SUICIDE IN MICH.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped a 70-year-old invalid kill himself Monday by inhaling carbon monoxide. He was Kevorkian's 13th assisted suicide.
Hugh Gale, a former security guard, had been disabled more than 10 years with emphysema and congestive heart disease.
"He was in terrible pain," said Michael Schwartz, one of Kevorkian's attorneys. "He was on oxygen 100 percent of the time - could not walk, could not go out of the house."
Gale's wife, Cheryl, and Kevorkian were at Gale's suburban Detroit home when he died, Schwartz said. Cheryl Gale did not speak to reporters.
Linda Vaughn Davis, an assistant county prosecutor at the scene, said she didn't know what legal action, if any, would be taken. There was no answer Monday at the prosecutor's office, which was closed for the Presidents Day holiday.
Gale was the fifth person Kevorkian has helped commit suicide since Dec. 15, when Gov. John Engler signed legislation that will ban assisted suicide in Michigan beginning March 30.
The new state law will make assisting a suicide a felony punishable by four years in prison. It was passed after murder charges against Kevorkian were dropped.
Keywords:
FATALITY

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB