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TIL that pathologist Jack Kevorkian publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide and because of this was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". He said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999.

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