Kevorkian died at 2:30 a.m. Friday after being hospitalized at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems, his attorney Mayer Morganroth said.
Kevorkian was a longtime proponent of assited suicide for terminally ill patients. He was revered by supporters and reviled by those who felt helping someone end their life violated the physicians oath to do no harm.
Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison in 2007 after serving eight years for second-degree murder. He claims to have assisted in at least 130 suicides.
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