Kevorkian Again Aids In Suicide ‘Saved’ By Police Earlier, Woman Completes Mission

Less than a day after police burst into a motel room to “save” a woman from committing suicide with Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s help, she killed herself Saturday with Kevorkian by her side.

“She said ‘how dare they,”’ Kevorkian’s lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, said Saturday in announcing the death of Isabel Correa.

Correa, 60, of Fresno, Calif., had said she suffered from a spinal cord disorder that left her in intense pain for six years and forced her to use a wheelchair. “I came to die,” she said Friday before becoming the 40th person known to have died with Kevorkian’s help since 1990.

Kevorkian himself drove the woman’s body to Beaumont Hospital in nearby Royal Oak at 2:05 p.m. Saturday and handed emergency room workers a card identifying the woman, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Correa was meeting with Kevorkian at a local motel Friday night when two officials from Oakland County prosecutor’s office and as many as 20 police officers “pushed in a door,” halted the session and said they were there to “save” Correa, Fieger said.

“Despite the efforts of those thugs last night, Isabel Correa ended her pain today with the help of Dr. Kevorkian,” Fieger said at Saturday’s news conference. “We’re here today to celebrate a blow for freedom.”

Fieger said that after the confrontation with police at the motel, Correa had refused to leave the state without ending her suffering. Fieger earlier had threatened a $25 million lawsuit because the police officers had no warrant.

Police Chief Jeffrey Werner said Saturday the officers didn’t need a warrant because they had reason to believe a death was about to occur. He likened the situation to one in which someone is holding a gun to his head or about to jump from a bridge.

Fieger denounced that reasoning. “They break into a room of a woman who is a paraplegic and is talking to a doctor,” he said. “Kevorkian committed no crime. Isabel Correa is not a criminal.”

No arrests were made. But Fieger said the officers seized Correa’s pain medicine, a sympathy card and her rosary.