In the 1980s and ‘90s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian pushed the ethical limits of healthcare with his controversial ideas around death and suffering. What he believed in most was a patient’s right to die with the help of a physician. And for a decade, he assisted in the deaths of over 130 terminally ill patients.
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Nov 2022
Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic
Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, as ... Show More
42m 41s
May 2023
Dr. Harold Shipman - Part 5
The death of Mrs Lyons echoes in many ways the death of Shipman’s mother, Vera, twelve years earlier, a death he re-enacted many times over the ensuing years. He now had the blueprint for successful, undetected murder, and he would follow it closely for the next twenty-three year ... Show More
25m 56s
May 2024
Dr. Death, un fou armé d'un scalpel !
Plongez dans l'univers inquiétant du Dr Christopher Duntsch, surnommé « Dr Death ». Neurochirurgien dans la région de Dallas-Fort Worth, ses opérations révélaient une réalité sombre et tragique pour ses patients. Découvrez comment chaque décision du Dr Duntsch pouvait sceller le ... Show More
46m 4s
Jul 2023
Dr. Harold Shipman - Part 7
For many months and years, the tide ran with Fred Shipman. These were perfect crimes: apparently motiveless, with victims whose deaths, although a shock to those around them, were not questioned, committed by a murderer who had access to the means of killing and who was, because ... Show More
28m 10s
Apr 2021
Katie Engelhart on What It Means to Die With Dignity
Writer and producer Katie Engelhart, author of the new book “The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die,” speaks with us about the underground euthanasia movement, the differing perspectives on assisted suicide in countries around the world, and the problems with the media’s ... Show More
38m 1s