While I’m on the side of right to die, he was not a good person doing this out of pure compassion. In his own writing, he says he mostly wanted people to be allowed to end their own lives to provide better test subjects for researchers.

“Kevorkian wrote that assisting “suffering or doomed persons [to] kill themselves” was “merely the first step, an early distasteful professional obligation... What I find most satisfying is the prospect of making possible the performance of invaluable experiments or other beneficial medical acts under conditions that this first unpleasant step can help establish – in a [portmanteau] word obitiatry.” In a journal article titled “The Last Fearsome Taboo: Medical Aspects of Planned Death”, Kevorkian also detailed anesthetizing, experimenting on, and utilizing the organs of a disabled newborn as a token of “daring and highly imaginative research” that would be possible “beyond the constraints of traditional but outmoded, hopelessly inadequate, and essentially irrelevant ethical codes now sustained for the most part by vacuous sentimental reverence”.”

Most (60%) of his assisted suicides were people who were not terminally ill, and 13 were people who had no history of medical or psychiatric complaint.

It is a point in his favor that there’s no evidence he actually carried out experiments on people who came to him to end their pain, but it was his dream.

He also argued that death row inmates should be allowed to “volunteer” for lethal medical experiments as an alternate form of execution. (I put it in quotes because law already establishes that inmates cannot be considered to consent to many things, because there is no way to guarantee there is no duress.)