He Killed for Choice: Inside Jack Kevorkian's Contested Mercy

Healthcare Scandal Investigations · Sep 17, 2026 · 21m

He Killed for Choice: Inside Jack Kevorkian's Contested Mercy

Fifty million Americans watched a man die on television as the doctor who admitted he had done it 130 times held the syringe - a single act that forced the nation to ask who owns death. How did a pathologist from Pontiac, forged by his mother's survival of the Armenian genocide and a lifetime of controversial proposals, become both a savior to some and a criminal to others?

In this episode, we trace the arc of Jack Kevorkian’s life and work, from his 1928 birth to his creation of the Thanatron and the prosecutions that followed…