If you are dying, you may view Dr. Jack Kevorkian as a courageous crusader for your rights. If you are a doctor, he may seem more like a cheap purveyor of easy death. Either way, he has become the lightning rod of the right-to-die movement and a gifted promoter of a cause he desperately believes in -- and shockingly abets. Last week the doctor who has made his name by hastening death rather than forestalling it helped two more women kill themselves in Michigan. Lawmakers and doctors may debate the ethics of euthanasia endlessly; but while that argument unfolds, the activists...
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