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🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Part one of a two-part series.
TW - Suicide, self-harm.
Murad "Jack" Kevorkian was born in Pontiac and studied medicine at the University of Michigan.
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0:00.0 | In the shadowy corners of Michigan's towns and beyond, mysteries linger unsolved. |
0:06.9 | Her family is not heard from her sense. |
0:09.1 | Waiting for answers. |
0:10.2 | If you see her or that car, call 911. |
0:13.3 | From cold cases that defy logic to the crimes that haunt the Great Lakes region. |
0:17.7 | Right now there is no trace. |
0:19.4 | This is the already gone podcast. |
0:26.0 | Imagine sitting in a rusted white 1968 Volkswagen van parked in the stillness of a quiet |
0:32.8 | Michigan campground. |
0:34.6 | In the back on a makeshift cot lies a woman, Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old devoted wife, |
0:42.4 | mother, grandmother, and teacher. Struggling with the devastating effects of early onset |
0:49.3 | Alzheimer's disease, she seeks an end to her suffering. She presses a button, initiating a process design to bring |
0:57.3 | her peace. Created by a man the world would come to know as Dr. Death. This moment marks the beginning |
1:05.3 | of Jack Kovorkian's transformation, from a brilliant pathologist to a deeply divisive figure at the center of one of the most |
1:12.7 | controversial debates in modern medical history. |
1:17.4 | This moment in the quiet Michigan campground marked more than the end of one life, it ignited a |
1:23.3 | national conversation. Jack Kovorkian, a man unafraid to challenge societal norms, |
1:30.2 | was about to step into the spotlight as one of the most controversial and recognized figures |
1:35.3 | in modern medicine. His actions raised questions that society couldn't ignore. Who decides |
1:43.1 | when life should end? |
1:46.5 | What role should doctors play in death? |
2:11.2 | And how far was Kovorkian willing to go to fight for his beliefs? Jack Cvorcian pushed the limits of medicine, morality, and the law through his unconventional methods and disregard for legal and societal norms. His actions ignited intense ethical debates and transformed the way people |
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