Dr. Death gets paroled…

Jack Kevorkian will be like most parolees on Friday morning when he walks out of a state prison near Coldwater, Mich.  He’ll have regular, required visits with hisparole officer in Waterford, drug- and alcohol-testing and standardrequirements to stay away from felons, weapons and anything thatconstitutes criminal behavior.  But the man known as Dr. Death — he claims tohave helped more than 130 terminally or chronically ill people die from1990-98 — will have some restrictions most parolees don’t, according toRuss Marlan, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.  For example: He can’t be present at any suicide or euthanasia. He cannot counsel people on how to commit suicide.  Kevorkian, who turned 79 Saturday, hasn’t had avalid medical license since 1991. He can still be an advocate forassisted suicide. He has told friends, as well as corrections officialsin his parole interview, that he will continue his crusade to legalizeassisted suicide but in a less defiant way.

Source/more:  USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-29-kevorkian-release_N.htm