History of Armenia 28: The Story of Jack Kevorkian
*CONTENT WARNING: This episode speaks, at length, about suicide*
Jack Kevorkian is known in popular media as "Dr. Death" The man that championed euthanasia in the United States with the state trying desperately to find a reason to throw him in prison. However, there is much more to it than that.
Dr, Kevorkian was a deeply unwell man who cared little for medical ethics or his patients and cared more about his cause then the people he was sworn to help.
Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1174693/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/chronology.html
https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-2014106
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/12/08/study-kevorkian-patients-weren-t-dying/
https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/the-life-of-dr-death/
Comments (8)
There is a fishing boat in Bristol bay, alaska that is named the kevorkian. There are a few of us Armenians working in that fishery. Merci for the pod akhpero
The Armenians in WW2 episode was great. However, after listening to Ep 4 of the main pod I was surprised that you have not done an episode on the Armenian Legion given your family connection. While it is an uncomfortable topic I think it is important to contextualize its existence. Honestly an entire episode on Ost battalions would be cool.
How about Garry Kasparov or Raffi Cavoukian - Raffi has a really interesting story, born in Cairo
Patrick Bet-David is half Armenian. 😅
My dad went to the University of Michigan for medical school in the late ‘80s and has said multiple times to find a Dr Kevorkian type doc should he get “like that” (ie. coma, Alzheimer’s, terminal illness, etc)
Definitely a figure from the late '90s: I always think of the episode of That's My Bush! Where he euthanized the cat when I think of him. Interesting episode of the pod.
I remember reading about Kevorkian i Swedish newspapers when I was younger. Safe to say he's world famous. Also, what does his name mean?
Kevork generally means "Farmer" in Western Armenian. His name ends in -ian, meaning he is western armenian (former ottoman empire) while names that end in -yan are eastern armenian (modern day Republic of Armenia)