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Medical suicide advocate and pathologist Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) used carbon monoxide as a euthanasia agent

National Press Club, Washington, DC on July 29, 1996. (Source: Kingkongphoto and www.celebrity-photos.com, https://www.flickr.com/people/362770 35@N06, from Laurel, Maryland. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License, https://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en.)

Associated Disorders

  • Anoxic leukoencephalopathy
  • Carbon monoxide-induced parkinsonism
  • Delayed carbon monoxide encephalopathy
  • Late sequelae of carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Warehouse workers headache