Nation IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Kevorkian Says He Won’t Aid Suicides

Dr. Jack Kevorkian said in an interview that he has given up helping people kill themselves and will devote his efforts to campaigning to allow physicians to help patients die. Kevorkian, who has helped 20 people with terminal illnesses or unrelievable pain kill themselves since 1990, was released last week on $100 bail after 18 days in a county jail on charges of violating Michigan’s law against assisted suicides. “I never once before said I’d stop totally, but I have now,” the retired pathologist told the New York Times in an interview in Troy, Mich.