| Jack Kevorkian’s Coins | |
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Origin |
Dr. Jack Kevorkian |
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Type |
Ancient Coins |
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Effects |
Causes death-like coma |
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Downsides |
Mistakable resemblance to death |
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Activation |
Placing on victim's eyes |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
Romero-637B |
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Shelf |
84894-448556-4001 |
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Date of Collection |
March 25, 2009 |
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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. 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 breathing in carbon monoxide to kill themselves. These machines would be used with terminal patients, however an investigation into Kevorkian showed that sixty percent of those the doctor "helped" 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 toxins into the 'corpse' and not be questioned, since he cannot kill a dead person. Due to the links to ancient Greek funeral practices, it is hypothesized that the coins were artifacts long before Kevorkian obtained them.