- In 1984, he supported a bill in California that would enable death row prisoners to donate their organs and die by anesthesia instead of poison gas or the electric chair.
- He is survived by his sister, Flora Kevorkian Holzheimer. His sister, Margo Kevorkian Janus, died in 1994.
- He was the middle child and only son of three children of Levon and Satenig Kevorkian, Armenian refugees.
- He moved to Long Beach, California in 1976 where he spent his time painting and writing and producing an unsuccessful film, about "Handel's Messiah." He was there for 12 years.
- Of Armenian descent.
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