by David Morrison

About the author: David Morrison is a researcher and writer for Human Life International, a pro-life organization that conducts research on topics such as euthanasia, population, and abortion. He is also the editor of PRI Review, a bimonthly publication that covers worldwide population and development issues.

Everyone, with the exception of the people who killed her, agrees the only serious things from which Judith Curren suffered were depression and a series of physical symptoms associated with having to carry 269 pounds on a 5' 1. frame. Yet for Jack Kevorkian, Michigan’s first self-appointed “obitiatrist,” this was enough.

Kevorkian joined Judith’s husband, Franklin Curren, and a member of the newly formed Physicians for Mercy in killing Judith on 16 August 1996. The mother of two girls, age 10 and 7, was 42 years...