Jack Kevorkian is a former Armenian-American pathologist. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via euthanasia; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime."

Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of an 11-to-20-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on June 1, 2007, on parole due to good behavior.