Read William Saletan’s essay in Slate about Jack Kevorkian and his own father’s recent death to cancer: “Kevorkian didn’t have the answers,” he writes. “But he raised the right questions.”

Read the June 3, 2011, Washington Post obituary on Jack Kevorkian. It says that, “Though [Kevorkian] was the most well known figure in fighting for euthanasia’s legalization, the legislative results of his efforts were largely unsuccessful, if not counterproductive.”

Read the New York Times June 3, 2011, obituary on Jack Kevorkian. The obituary says says his critics and supporters generally agree that “as a result of his stubborn and often intemperate advocacy for the right of the terminally ill to choose how they die, hospice care has boomed in the United States, and physicians have become more sympathetic […]

Read a June 6, 2011, column by Kevin Drum of Mother Jones. Drum responds to Ross Douthat’s criticism of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Read a June 5, 2011, article from New York Times columnist Ross Douthat that argues against physician-assisted suicide and claims that Kevorkian was guilty of murder.

Read a June 7, 2011, column by Washington Post blogger Ezra Kelin, “The argument for, and against, euthanasia,” that cites a 1997 article showing that terminally ill people in pain are less inclined to opt for assisted suicide.

Dennis Wagner is chairman of the board of the Access Research Network, a nonprofit that supports the discussion and teaching of intelligent design. In a 2008, blog entry, Wagner discussed what the ID community could do to prepare for the Darwin bicentennial.

Dr. Robert Eckel is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center in Denver.

Read the transcript from a Nov. 12, 2010, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly episode about Zen hospital chaplains who help patients of all faiths use Buddhist techniques to manage pain and suffering.