Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic, who is Oakland County's medical examiner and a harsh critic of Kevorkian, believes taxpayers are unfairly burdened. Some costs are inherent in every death, but we rarely have complete medical records on these people so we have to start from the beginning. And neither Fieger's office nor the families are very helpful. Moreover, Dragovic said, these types of deaths are not suicides. That fits into the classification of homicide.
Suicide is a very narrow category that involves self-infliction.
Most recently, Kevorkian acknowledged helping John O'Hara die. Fieger and the hoteliers agree motels are not ideal suicide settings, but they disagree on the impact of them. Hotel managers dispute that. Fieger claims they call before every suicide and that's not true. If we had received a call we would have taken that very seriously.