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ROYAL OAK, Mich., March 3 (UPI) -- Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist whose advocacy of euthanasia embarrassed right-to-die advocates and landed him in jail, has become a writer.
GlimmerIQs, a soft-bound collection of light verse, serious essays, paintings, cartoons, musical scores and family photographs -- went on sale Monday for $26 a copy, the Detroit News reported Wednesday.
The book includes an illustrated guide to anatomical mapping and Kevorkian's skeptical musings on the low-carb diet craze, among other topics.
Kevorkian's book is available via the Internet, glimmeriqs.com or at the Ariana Gallery in downtown Royal Oak.
Kevorkian is at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer, Mich., where he is in the fifth year of a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder.
He was convicted for the injection death of 75-year-old Thomas Youk, whose final moments Kevorkian videotaped and narrated on CBS's "60 Minutes" in 1998.
"This book is what's been keeping him alive," Ariana Gallery director Ann Kuffler, a longtime friend and supporter, said Tuesday.
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