Analysis of Kevorkian's Clients Yields Surprises

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Few patients who sought Kevorkian's aid were not terminally ill, a study found.

In addition, the analysis found that more women than men
sought Kevorkian's aid. The study was described in a letter published in Thursday's
New England Journal of Medicine .

Kevorkian's former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, criticized the
report, and said its findings were "nothing new." Fieger added that Kevorkian
didn't require those he assisted to be terminally ill, but to be
"interminably suffering."

Studies of physician-assisted suicide suggest that terminally
ill men over 65 are more likely than women to seek a doctor's help
to die. In the Kevorkian analysis, 49 patients - 71 percent of the
total - were women.

"We figured that men would be more likely to seek assistance
from Dr. Kevorkian. In fact, the opposite turned out to be true,"
said one of the researchers, Julie Malphurs of the University of
South Florida in Tampa.

Researchers only looked at the 69
people who died

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