Nation IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Kevorkian Assists in Another Suicide

Suicide machine inventor Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of a 52-year-old woman who had terminal lung cancer, his attorney said. Lois F. Hawes, of Warren, Mich., died after placing a mask over her face and turning on a canister of carbon monoxide, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said at a news conference in his Southfield, Mich., office. Her last words were “Please give me the gas,” Fieger said. Hawes’ death was Kevorkian’s fifth assisted suicide. Kevorkian, 63, of the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, had his medical license suspended in November, 1991, after he helped a Portland, Ore., woman kill herself.