31.   A jury on Friday acquitted Dr. Jack Kevorkian of violating a Michigan law banning assisted suicides, a measure written specifically to stop him.

32.   A second unreported assisted suicide also occurred later last month, a person close to Kevorkian said.

33.   Abortion is widespread and assisted suicide has been legalized in Oregon.

34.   Advances in pain control for terminally ill patients weaken the case for assisted suicide to escape pain, he suggested.

35.   Advocates of legalizing assisted suicide said the sentence showed that cases were being decided by their idiosyncrasies and that the laws should be made more uniform.

36.   Alex Coventry was found guilty of assisted suicide and sentenced to probation and community service.

37.   Almost every state has laws prohibiting assisted suicide, and English and American common law has historically held that government has an important interest in safeguarding life.

38.   All the polls show the public highly ambivalent about assisted suicide.

39.   Breaking with the national office of the American Medical Association, which opposed the assisted suicide measure, Oregon doctors decided to remain neutral.

40.   Both men said they normally oppose federal intervention in state decisions, but they hold strong, personal feelings against assisted suicide.