by Wesley J. Smith

About the author: Wesley J. Smith is a consumer advocate and an attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force. He is the author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder.

One October day in 1991, 58-year-old Marjorie Wantz, and 43-year-old Sherry Miller, kept their rendezvous with death when they met an unemployed pathologist named Jack Kevorkian at a rustic cabin near Detroit. Kevorkian was then still relatively unknown, although more than a year before, he had made headlines after hooking up Janet Adkins, who had early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, to a suicide machine that killed her by way of intravenously administered poison. (Adkins died a good ten years prior to when her disease could have been expected to end her life—a time during which it is...