Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an Armenian-American Innovator in the Medical Arena
Although admittedly in a slightly awkward medical field, Dr. Kevorkian joins the list of historic genius; Armenians at the forefront of innovation. “Free thinking for yourself,” a point vividly made throughout his life and career.
Unfortunately, Dr. Kevorkian came to pass today at the age of 83, however, his message regarding the field of medicine and civil liberties in the United States still remains.
“Jack Kevorkian (born May 26, 1928) is an Armenian-American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best-known for publicly championing a terminal patient’s right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. 
He famously said that ‘dying is not a crime’.
Beginning in 1999 Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.
An oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian has marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork to the public.”
