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GOD BLESSYOU, DR KEVORKIAN 21




INDEX OF PERSONS 79
 introduction
AWORD FROMWNYC'S REPORTER ON THE AFTERLIFE




My first near-death experience was an accident, a

botched anesthesia during a triple bypass. I had lis-

tened to several people on TV talk shows who had

gone down the blue tunnel to the Pearly Gates, and

even beyond the Pearly Gates, or so they said, and then

come back to life again. But I certainly wouldn't have

set out on such a risky expedition on purpose, without

first having survived one, and then planned another in

cooperation with Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the staff at

the state-of-the-art lethal injection execution facility

at Huntsville, Texas.

The following reports were recorded for later

broadcast by radio station WNYC. I hope they convey
a sense of immediacy. They were taped in the tiled
Huntsville death chamber only five minutes or so after

I was unstrapped from the gurney. The tape recorder,
incidentally, like the gurney, was the property of the
good people of Texas, and was ordinarily used to
immortalize the last words of persons about to make a

one-way, all-expenses-paid trip to Paradise.
There will be no more round trips for me, barring
another accident. For the sake of my family, I am try-