Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian’s Coins

Origin
Jack Kevorkian (1928 - 2011) was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author and composer. He was best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide. Due to this stance he was given the moniker 'Dr. Death' since he confessed to helping kill at least one hundred and twenty patients during his entire career. One of the first experiments that Kevorkian tried was seeing if recently deceased blood was still viable to be used in a living person. In fact he was able to successfully transfer the blood into the bodies of hospital staff members. Happy that it could be done he took the information to the U.S. military to see if they wanted to use this technique to help wounded soldiers during a battle but the Pentagon wasn't interested. The government's unwillingness to help living soldiers survive for longer in the field Kevorkian turned his attention to helping those with no other options but to live a bit longer in horrible pain. The first thing he created was an euthanasia device where the patient was hooked up to it and given a button so that it was their choice to press it and inject drugs or chemicals that could end their own life. Another way he allowed people to die was a machine that used a gas mask that had the patient bringing in carbon monoxide to kill themselves. These machines would be great with terminal patients however an investigation into Kevorkian showed that sixty percent of those the doctor helped end their lives weren't terminal.

This put Kevorkian in the position where he was considered assisting suicide. When confronted Kevorkian simply stated 'What does it mean to be terminal? We are all terminal.' In the later years nurses reported that Kevorkian seemed to follow ancient Greek tradition of putting coins on the patient's eyes. Most of these patients, regardless of if they were terminal or not, went into a coma and died. Kevorkian collected the coins after being seen injecting a fluid into the dead body. When asked he would tell the nurse that he was simply conducting an extension of his blood transmission tests he did in the beginning of his career.

Effects
When placed over a person’s closed eyes the victim goes into a death like sleep until coins are removed. This allowed him to inject poison into the 'corpse' and not be questioned since he cannot kill a dead person.