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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, known for his controversial practice of assisting suicides, has died this morning at a Michigan hospital at the age of 83. Kevorkian’s attorney said he was being treated at the hospital for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment.

Dr. Kevorkian, also known as “Dr. Death”, made news headlines for his activism in legalizing physician-assisted suicides. He was convicted of secondary-murder in 1999 after a patient died from “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”.

Read more at nytimes.com