Jack Kevorkian died this morning in a Detroit hospital at the age of 83. In the 1990s, he assisted with more than 100 suicides from the back of his converted VW Vanagon. The Atlantic discusses the tools he used to end lives.
It was the call those of us working night shifts at the Associated Press bureau in Detroit in the mid-1990s dreaded. A body in a seedy motel or dropped at a hospital’s ER meant one thing: Dr Death at work.