Jack Kevorkian, the American doctor who killed more than 130 people as part of his campaign to promote assisted suicide, has no regrets. In an interview for Larry King Live, Kevorkian told Dr Sanjay Gupta that he favours the term “patholysis” – the destruction of suffering -- instead of assisted suicide or euthanasia.

The frail 82-year-old, who is on parole from a 10 to 25-year sentence for murder, has no wish to die himself because he has three missions yet to accomplish. He wants to educate Americans about the impending doom from their culture of abundance, to educate people about patholysis, and to convince the public that their constitutional rights to freedom are being infringed.

He emphasised in the interview that he believes that assisted suicide is not a last resort for suffering patients with terminal diseases, but a lifestyle choice. People should be allowed to seek help to kill themselves whenever they like. "What difference does it make if someone is terminal?" he told Gupta. "We are all terminal." ~ CNN, June 14