ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 TAG: 9607300103
SECTION: NATL/INTL PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
Around the world, his cadaverous mug is the symbol of suicide, death and dying. But now Dr. Death is playing Dr. Ruth with a public service announcement encouraging people to wear condoms.
The ad, filmed this spring for an ABC-TV special on AIDS, features Jack Kevorkian warning that people who don't practice safe sex ``are the people who are really killing themselves.''
``Why perfectly healthy people would want to commit suicide is beyond me,'' Kevorkian concludes.
The ad was part of the traveling road show the Michigan pathologist and his legal sidekick, Geoffrey Fieger, brought to Washington on Monday during their joint appearance before the National Press Club.
The show featured a protester dressed as the Grim Reaper, adoring elderly women and a signature speech from Kevorkian indicting the ``corrupt'' social order, from the president to Michigan courts to the pope.
Fieger screened the ad for a Press Club luncheon crowd of about 250 - and C-SPAN's national viewing audience - to focus attention on ``a side of Jack Kevorkian you rarely see,'' the side that's ``about life.''
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