# Is Dr Jack Kerkovian still alive? I know he didn't plan to be.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290 "2001-05-23T13:50:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290/1 "2001-05-23T13:50:18Z")

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There was a link on [Brutal.com](http://Brutal.com) to a Jack Kerkovian website a while back but it seems to be gone. It was out of date anyway and it didn’t contain any information about his life right now. I typed the words “Jack Kerkovian” and “Dr Death” into 5 search engines and got nothing. He was determined to kill himself by starvation but as far as I know he hasn’t been successful. That’s a bit odd isn’t it? Also odd is the way Euthanasia organisations have never sought media attention for him since his incarceration.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290/2 "2001-05-23T14:15:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by G. Nome \*  
> **I typed the words “Jack Kerkovian” and “Dr Death” into 5 search engines and got nothing.**

Try “Kevorkian” and you’ll get more hits.

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290/3 "2001-05-23T14:28:32Z")

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Also, “Dr. Demento” 😃

He called off the hunger strike after 48 hours, although he once managed 18 days in 1993

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290/4 "2001-05-23T14:28:48Z")

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He is currently alive and residing in a prison in Michigan. I’m in Lansing, MI, and they’d lead off with that as the top story if he’d have died (unless of course, some MSU Spartan team member had a hangnail or something 😃 )

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dr-jack-kerkovian-still-alive-i-know-he-didnt-plan-to-be/66290/5 "2001-05-23T14:52:13Z")

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Thank you. I must admit the misspelling was really stupid. It’s a bit worrying to consider that the world’s foremost suicide expert can neither kill himself nor call on anyone else to do it for him.

I’ll have to go now. Each link I click is taking literally 5 minutes to turn over. I don’t know whether my connection is breaking down or it has something to do with this site.