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"You Don't Know Jack" is the perfect title for the upcoming HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as Death Doc Jack Kevorkian - because it is clear that many of Kevorkian's fawning interviewers don't know much about Jack. Fox News' Neil Cavuto, for example, last week introduced Kevorkian as a "Michigan physician who claims to have assisted in the suicides of at least 130 terminally ill people from 1990 to 1998." Physician? Not the kind who treats patients. Kevorkian was a pathologist until his medical license was yanked in 1991. In 1999, a Michigan jury convicted him of second-degree murder after...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian says he plans to run for Congress. Kevorkian is on parole since his release from prison last year after serving the minimum of a term for second-degree murder in one man's death. He said he plans to run without party affiliation for the 9th District seat now held by Republican Joe Knollenberg, who is running for re-election, The Oakland Press reported Wednesday. "We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington," Kevorkian said. He said he would say more about his candidacy next week. The retired pathologist claims...

LANSING, Mich. - Jack Kevorkian has promised to never help another person in an assisted suicide, but that hasn't dimmed the attention focused on his release from prison. The 79-year-old retired pathologist was expected to leave Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater on Friday morning with his attorney, Mayer Morganroth. Morganroth has said Kevorkian would not talk to the media Friday, though a news conference with his client was scheduled for Tuesday. Recently, Kevorkian has made it clear his support for letting people decide when they want to die hasn't wavered. "It's got to be legalized. That's the point," he told...

NEW YORK - More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.

Clinton: Americans 'reluctant to get to heaven' Says living wills 'will help to deal with the health-care crisis' Posted: November 17, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Bill Clinton called 'Most Influential Man in the World' in current Esquire In making a point about the importance of having a living will, ex-President Bill Clinton remarked that religious Americans are apparently hypocrites for having a fear of death. "It's interesting to me that we always proclaim – especially certain numbers of us – that we're the most religious big country in the world," said Clinton. "It may...

Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Another request by attorneys for Jack Kevorkian to be released from prison early because of health problems has been denied. Now his attorneys have filed a plea with the governor for a pardon or a commutation of his sentence. Kevorkian was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison as a result of the November 1998 euthanasia of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian administered the drugs that killed him in a death that was shown on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" newsmagazine program. Oakland Circuit Judge Rae Lee Chabot turned down the request to release Kevorkian and have him serve...