Kevorkian would 'have to refuse' death aid

BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 2 (UPI) -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan physician known as "Dr. Death," says he will no longer help people end their lives, even those in terrible pain.

Kevorkian -- who was released Friday from Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Mich., after serving more than eight years for the second-degree murder of an ALS victim -- told CBS' "60 Minutes" he promised his parole board he would refrain from assisted suicide.

"It would be painful for me, but I would have to refuse them," he told Mike Wallace in an interview to be televised Sunday on "60 Minutes."

Kevorkian said he cannot talk specifically about assisted suicide or euthanasia.

"I won't discuss it like they stipulate," he said.

Kevorkian, who says he has helped more than 130 people commit suicide, was sentenced to 10-to-25 years in prison for assisting the suicide of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.

He gave CBS News a videotape of him administering a lethal injection to Youk in 1998, providing the evidence that sent him to prison.