FILE In this Aug. 10, 1991 photo, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, inventor of the controversial suicide machine, sits with his just release book, Prescription: Medicide, in Royal Oak, Mich. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. Mayer Morganroth tells The Associated Press that Kevorkian died Friday, June 3, 2011 at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he had been hospitalized. Kevorkian had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)