Just hours before they died, Sherry Miller, Marjorie Wantz, and their family members met with Kevorkian at the home of Sherry Miller’s parents on October 22, 1991. Miller, 43, had advanced multiple sclerosis and had approached Kevorkian a year earlier. She kept pursuing him and told her story several times on television. Marjorie Wantz, 58, also had sought Kevorkian’s help for years. Although not terminally ill, she suffered excruciating pain after many surgeries to remove benign vaginal tumors. She had tried to kill herself several times. Psychiatrists said she was depressed and suicidal and some felt her pain was psychosomatic. (Later, when the medical examiner conducted her autopsy, he found no physical cause for her pain.) The day after this interview, they committed suicide in a rustic cabin. Wantz used a machine Kevorkian invented, which injected a fatal substance; Miller inhaled carbon monoxide because her veins were too weak for a needle.....

1. Consult the Frontline website “The Kevorkian Verdict” at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian /tindex.html.

2. Write an essay answering the question, “Is it ethical public policy to make doctor-assisted suicide criminal homicide?” Support your answer with points made in the section on “Doctor-Assisted Suicide,” and the Frontline website content.