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>> it was coercive on the patient? >> larry: no, no. you had to feel the moment you were assisting people, even though its what they wanted, you had something. >> i felt good. i felt that thats what im here for. thats why im in medicine. really. you know? im not just handing out aspirin for some symptom or something. i mean, this is -- this is really where the rubber meets the road in medicine. >> larry: we asked the other -- we asked mr. youk, when do you think, ava, your uncles heritage is goi...

All right. >> did the word "chill" every crop up in your conversation. >> the ugly word never came up in our conversation. our conversation was about ending his suffering. >> this is not an assisted suicide case. tom youk didnt kill himself with jack kevorkians help. jack kevorkian killed tom youk by injecting him with drugs. >> he calls it a murder, a crime, a killing. i call it a medical service. tom youk didnt come to me because i want to die, kill me. he came to me to say, please help me. >>...

Kevorkian? >> well, a lot of people have already said jack was maybe not the best spokesperson for end-of-life issues and that he was too brash or this or that or too flying off the handle. and maybe in some cases that was true, but the truth is that he was passionate about this issue, is passionate about this issue. and he brought it into our living rooms. he brought it into the culture in way that has engendered a debate that continues to this day. unfortunately its a very polarized debate at ...

the 8 1/2 years spent behind bars. is he miss under? complicated? the complex complicated mr. jack kevorkian is next on "larry king live." we welcome dr. jack kevorkian back to "larry king live." hes a pathologist and a right to die activist. he claims to have been involved in at least 130 physician-assisted suicides. youll remember he served more than eight years in prison for second degree murder in the 1998 death of thomas youth. hes the focus of a new documentary "kevorkian" that p...