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Former Michigan state senator Fred Dillingham sponsored legislation during the 1990s that helped ban assisted suicide, and is seen in news footage in the film alongside then-Gov. John Engler as Engler signed one of the bills into law. The law was in response to Dr. Jack Kevorkian's activities.

Dillingham is still a foe of assisted suicide. The report says:
He credits Kevorkian, however, with shining a new light on hospice care, which allows terminally ill patients to receive holistic, rather than advanced medical, care as they end their lives. Dillingham said legislation compelling insurance companies to cover hospice care and better defining state law regarding durable powers of attorney and living wills followed.

He called Kevorkian a "catalyst" that emphasized the need for hospice care, and that Michigan's hospice legislation became a national model. "It probably would not have evolved as quickly. There's no doubt that Kevorkian stirred the pot to a point where it became a major public policy issue that commanded a great deal of legislative focus and attention," said Dillingham, adding that both of his parents died under hospice care.

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Behnan, Christopher. "Ex-lawmaker in Kevorkian film". Livingston Daily. April 29, 2010. <www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100429/NEWS01/4290310/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Ex-lawmaker-in-Kevorkian-film>. Livingston Daily, Daily Press & Argus, 323 E. Grand River Ave. Howell, MI 48843, U.S.A.

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