e that he wanted to show the videotape for the 'self-serving' reason of wanting to stir a national debate on euthanasia (Foer 55). Then portions of the videotape were shown in which Kevorkian asks Youk after administering seconal "can you hear me?" And after Kevorkian injects the fatal drug, Wallace is overheard saying, "Is he dead?" Kevorkian replies, "He's dying" (Korry 46). Wallace said that Kevorkian told him "this is the first time he's taped the moment of death" (Korry 46). The rest of the segment consists of interviews by Wallace with Youk's relatives, including his mother and wife, who indicated that Youk consented to the procedure. The program included a 90 second segment in which Wallace interviewed an opponent of PAS, Mark Siegler, Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical and Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago (Vatz and Weinberg 68).
The District Attorney of Oakland County, Michigan obtained the videotape from CBS. He indicted Kevorkian on November 25, 1998 and prosecuted him for first
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