Kevorkian admits assistance SOUTHFIELD. Mich {API — Dr Jack Kevorkian flatly admitted he assisted a man in a merciful suii ide" Wednes day and blamed the medii al profession and the govern ment for making terminally ill people suffer "I assisted Thomas Hyde in a merciful suicide There's no doubt about that I state it emphatical ly." Kevorkian told reporters outside of his lawyer's Southfield offii e "1 will always do so when a patient needs it, because I'm a physii ian Hyde, to. of Novi, inhaled carbon monoxide on Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River, said Kevorkian attorney Mi< haul Schwartz Hyde suf fered from umyotrophii lateral si lerosis. a degen erative nerve disorder also known as Lou Cehrig's disease. S< bwartz said. It was the second time Kevorkian has been pre sent at a suicide since a new state law banning assisted suicide took effoc t in February No < barges have been brought in the Slav 1 f• death of a South field man. In the last two deaths involving Kevorkian before Hyde's death on Wednesday, his lawyers have said only that be was present, a ( hange from descriptions of him assisting suicides in most pre vious cases. The new Michigan law, passed last year in response to Kevorkian, imposes a penalty of up to four years in prison and a S2.000 fine for violators Wayne Countv Circuit Court judge Cynthia Stevens overturned the law on tei finical grounds May 20 But the state Court of Appeals bloi ked Stevens' ruling in (line while it reviews the < use Schwartz said Kevorkian did not violate the assisted-suicide law in Hyde's death Wednesday Kevorkian thrashed the medical profession for not taking a stand on the issue "They're polite ians first, businessmen sei ond, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves to have human beings like Thomas Hyde suffer immensely, unable to move any muscle, cannot speak, cannot swallow, have pain in addition to all that, and they turn their heads Imh ause 'We've got to discuss this a little more. " Kevorkian said “The world knows there's a need for this The talk is senseless, pointless, there's nothing new to he said about this " Police Inspector Gerald Stewart refused to dis cuss the investigation of Hyde's death other than to say Kevorkian was questioned and released If we come up with the elements m« essarv to proceed with charges, we will," Stewart said Wayne Countv Prosecutor John O'Hair said that in addition to considering whether the law vs as broken in deciding whether to press charges, his offt( e would consider the i hanc es of the state law being overturned Neighbors at Hyde's townhouse complex about 30 miles west of Detroit said he used a wheeli hair and appeared depressed earlier this week He apparently shared the apartment with Ins wife and daughter, hut no one answered the door Wednes dm David Wasielewski. 2~. said he lived next door for about a ve.ir hut had only a nodding acquain tance with him He said he saw llvde returning to Ins apartment Tuesday "We made eve i imtat t and I waved to him. Wasielewski said "But lie looked reallv depressed He was staring into spai e I suallv. he looks good 1 don’t believe this " Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, helped an Ore gon woman i ommit suicide in 1990 and siih e has crusaded for doctor-assisted suicide for some ter initially ill people Paul Denenfeld. legal dtrei tor of the Michigan chapter of the Arneric an C iv il Liberties I nion. said prosec uting Kevorkian in Hyde's death would he difficult The At 1.1 lias i hallenged the state law on behalf of two terminal cancer patients, a phar mncist and six doc tors "Dr Kevorkian has the ability to exercise Ins Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to make a statement to polii e. " Denenfeld said "It would lie up to authorities to prove Dr Kevorkian commit ted a crime before he could lie charged Denenfeld said simply watc lung a suicide doesn't violate the law Self-amputee recovering well HARMARVIU.K, Pa. (AIM — To a husky otitdoorsman brave enough to saw through his pinned leg with a knife, the ordeal of r»s overy seems simple Nothing i onipares to mv chal lenge in the woods,” Donald Wyman said Wednesday "It's all downhill from now on.” lust two weeks ago. Wyman was i iittmg logs about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh when an oak tree suddenly unite free and landed on Ins leg, breaking two bones Wyman fashioned a tourniquet with a chainsaw cord, cut through w hat was left of his leg with a pocketktiife. crawled through mud to (ns bulldozer, drove to his stick-shift truck and. using his good leg on the clutch and gas. drove the trui k two miles to a nearby farm for help It took about un hour After several days in the hos pital. Wy man transferred to Har marville Rehabilitation Center near Pittsburgh. 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