On the Death of Jack Kevorkian, "Dr. Death"

I was a nerdy, somewhat intense and somewhat depressed high school freshman the year Jack Kevorkian stirred the public imagination with his "death machine." About eight months earlier, my mother's father, who was a second father to me, had died of cancer. It had been a fairly long struggle, and I distinctly remember a few moments with him where he seemed to be wishing to be dead - where the pain