Kevorkian, 78, suffering hep-C & diabetes, weight at 113lbs, 1 year to live. So they release him

[Bucky]

"Kevorkian's attorney said this summer that Kevorkian, now 78, was suffering from hepatitis C and diabetes, that his weight had dropped to 113 pounds and that he had less than a year to live."

Anyone wanna guess where this story is going?

Assisted suicide advocate to be paroled in June
POSTED: 9:04 p.m. EST, December 13, 2006

LANSING, Michigan (AP) -- After more than eight years in prison, a frail Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June with a promise that he won't assist in any more suicides, a prison spokesman said Wednesday.

Leo Lalonde, the corrections spokesman, would not provide further details.

Kevorkian, once the nation's most vocal advocate of assisted suicide for the terminally ill, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, an Oakland County man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Michigan banned assisted suicide in 1998.

Youk's death was videotaped and shown on CBS' "60 Minutes."

Kevorkian, who claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s, called it a mercy killing.

Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian's attorney, said this summer that Kevorkian, now 78, was suffering from hepatitis C and diabetes, that his weight had dropped to 113 pounds and that he had less than a year to live.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered corrections authorities to carry out an independent medical evaluation of Kevorkian, but did not commute the retired pathologist's sentence, as Morganroth had hoped.

[flying_wahini]

1. I guess he will off himself, when he is ready.

[Hissyspit]

2. He may not want to. That's his choice. n/t

[Bucky]

3. the irony, of course, is that he was given a year to live last summer. With a June parole date....

it just seems like they're cutting this one a little close.