The Trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian (1992-99)

by Douglas O. Linder (2019)

He called his invention “the thanatron.” It was an inexpensive contraption. A jewelry chain, parts from an Erector Set, an old motor, an intravenous line, and three plastic bottles. One of the bottles contained a saline solution, another a barbiturate called Seconal, and a third potassium chloride. Each of the three bottles connected to the IV line.

The inventor of the thanatron was 60-year-old doctor named Jack Kevorkian. The aim of his machine was to cause death. A humane, painless death...Continued

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