Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83

Assisted Suicide Crusader Jack Kevorkian Dies in Hospital | LifeNews.com.

Jack Kevorkian, the pathologist who undertook transferring living patients to those in his medical specialty ahead of schedule, has died after a hospital admission for renal failure and pneumonia.

The immediate cause of death is said to be pulmonary embolism, though multiple conditions and complications existed at the time of his admission.

Kevorkian was the most famous promoter and practitioner of physician assisted suicide in the US.  He was imprisoned for killing patients  (many of whom were not in terminal condition)  in locations where it is still illegal to do so.