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Acquitted on charges of helping a mentally unstable woman kill herself, Lawrence Egbert—dubbed second “Dr. Death”—is carrying on with his macabre work. Terry Greene Sterling on his next legal hurdles.

Lawrence Egbert, MD, a major figure in the assisted-suicide movement who lost his license for giving too much assistance, died of a heart attack on June 9 in his Baltimore, Maryland, home at the age ...

LAWRENCE EGBERT COMES to his cramped third-story office almost every weekday, taking calls on an old white push-button phone with a handset darkened by years of smudged newsprint and perspiration.

In 2007, Jana Van Voorhis, a wealthy 58-year-old Phoenix woman who believed she was being nocturnally attacked by rats and had holes in her liver, suffocated herself with helium. Two years later, ...

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