Dr. Jack Kervorkian is a well known figure of society today. Kervorkian was a United States based physician who assisted in patient suicides. Kervorkian sparked a worldwide debate over hospice care and if the work Kervorkian was demonstrating was considered to be legal or not. Nonetheless, Kervorkian had a unique childhood and lifestyle that sparked his interest in assisted suicide. Kervorkian’s profile is fascinating and eye opening and should be recognized. As a whole, Kervorkian’s background was very exclusive and many ponder on the idea of his works. Kervorkian was born on May 26, 1928 in Pontiac, Michigan. Kervorkian was the second of three children who were born to Armenian immigrants, Levon and Satenig Kervorkian. Levon and Satenig were refugees who had escaped the Armenian Massacres. They both were forced to separate but eventually found their way back to each other in Pontiac, Michigan, where they soon started their family. Levon supported his family greatly by owning his own excavating company. This gave the Kervorkian’s a sizeable living while many others were struggling on a day-to-day …show more content…
Levon and Satenig were heavy based Christians and in a way forced all three of their children into practicing Christianity. However, Jack had a hard time practicing Christianity because what he believed conflicted with this religious practice. Jack would question God’s existence and eventually stopped attending church at age twelve. Not only were Levon and Satenig strict religious parents, they both challenged all three of their children to achieve high excellence in the classroom. However, schoolwork came easily to Jack and excelled so greatly that he often got in arguments with his teachers at school, in which at times, he humiliated them. Jack was so smart that he was often singled out from the rest of his classmates and had a hard time making friends as a