Kervorkian graduated in 1945 from Pontiac High School at the age of 17. He then received his undergraduate from the University of Michigan, and then went on to University of Michigan Medical School and graduated in 1952. Kervorkian continued his residencies at Pontiac General, Detroit Receiving and University of Michigan Medical Center. In 1958 Kervorkian drove to the Ohio State Penitentiary to ask inmates on death row if he could experiment on dead bodies. Only one answered Kervorkian's request and gave him full rights to his body. When questioned by others in the medical field, Kervorkian replied, "it would be a unique privilege...to be able to experiment on a doomed human being."

The publicity from the death row experiments caused embarrassment for

Living above a singles bar, Kervorkian was out of place. Helived off his savings as he went from one hospital to another looking for a job. Not even the Oakland County Medical Examiners office would hire Kervorkian, because of his controversial experiments and articles he had published.

In the summer of 1989 Kervorkian designed Thanatron. Greek for "death machine" it starts with a harmless intravenous drip of saline solution. The patient then presses a button that stops the saline and starts a new drip of Thiopental and sets a 60-second timer. The Thiopental puts the patient into a deep coma. When the timer goes off a lethal dose of Potassium Chloride is injected through the IV and stops the heart in minutes. Thanatron is often described as dying in your sleep, quick, painless, and easy. Kervorkian found all the supplies at a local hardware store and garage sales, the total cost for the death machine, $30.

While watching his mother die a slow painful death from cancer Kervorkian began to think about euthanasia. In June of 1987 Kervorkian placed ads in local papers advertising his services. The advertisement only produced two calls, and neither was what Kervorkian was looking for. In August a friend of his, George Adams, published an article about Kervorkian's ideas on euthanasia and criminals on death row donating their organs. The article in Health Care Weekly Review was Kervorkian's first widespread exposure, but it created a lot of negative response from the Detroit area medical professionals and administrators.

In the 60's Kervorkian took an adult educ

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