More on Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Release

As reported earlier on this blog, yesterday (June 1, 2007) was the day Dr. Jack Kevorkian was released from prison.

According to Monica Davey, Kevorkian Freed After Years in Prison for Aiding Suicide, NY Times, June 2, 2007:

One in a long list of conditions Mr. Kevorkian agreed to as part of a two-year period of parole, Michigan prison officials said, was not to participate in future suicides. * * *

In the years Mr. Kevorkian spent in prison, little has changed legally in this realm across the country. Oregon remains the only state with a law in which a terminally ill patient can ask a doctor to prescribe a lethal amount of medication under certain circumstances. Since 1998, 292 people have died under the terms of Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act.

Other states, including Vermont, have rejected such proposals, and national advocates for assisted suicide said they would be watching California’s bill next week with particular concern.