After her death, Dr. Kevorkian lost his practice and went to jail a year later for assisting and in result he had assisted in a total of 130 deaths over an 8-year period. In June 26, 1995, "Kevorkian opens a "suicide clinic" in an office in Springfield Township, Michigan. Erika Garcellano, a 60-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, woman with ALS, is the first client. A few days later, the building's owner kicks out Kevorkian."[WGB14] Last but not least, Dr. Kevorkian has mentioned that, "My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience," he said. "I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death." [Kei11].
Ethically, doctors usually follow the Hippocratic Oath to save people, not to kill them. But for those patients who are suffering and are seeking hospice care and pain management medicine, those patients feel that it is not working out for them, they feel at misery and that's when the patient knows when it is their time to "go". As a last resort, some of those sufferers might seek other care, the physician assisted suicide, to end life. It is not an easy decision. In the United States, it is discouraged in most states. The first state to effect a compassionate law was Oregon, approved in November 8th 1994, calling it the Death With Dignity Law. The second was the state of Washington, effective in November 4th, 2008, and was named the Washington Death with Dignity Act. After Washington, came Montana in December 31, 2009 with the Healthcare Freedom of Conscience Act [Hea13]. Then along came the fourth state, Vermont, passing the End of Life Choice Law, effective in May 20th, 2013 [Ver14] and last, the newly enacted law in the state of New Mexico, initiated last January 14th, of this year. Currently, New Jersey is under debate pertaining to the physician-assisted suicide brought by Brittany Maynard.