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DETROIT, MI, May 19, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Jack Kevorkian, known by many as “Dr. Death” for his role in helping over 100 people commit suicide, has been hospitalized in Detroit, according to local media.

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Kevorkian was reportedly rushed to Michigan’s Beaumont Hospital on Wednesday; he is suffering from pneumonia and a recurrent kidney condition.

Kevorkian’s attorney, Mayer Morganroth, said, however, that his client is “getting better.”

“He was in there a couple of weeks ago for four days,” Morganroth said, according to Detroit News. “He had a relapse and was feeling weak.”

“[Dr. Kevorkian] is just getting tests. He is improving and he is not in any danger He is in a regular room. He is not in critical care at all,” he said.

Kevorkian was released early from prison in 2007, where he was serving a 10-25-year sentence for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kevorkian only served about 8 years of that sentence before being released, amidst claims of extremely poor health and that he had only a year to live.

However, rather than dying within the year, once out from behind bars Kevorkian has continued to actively advocate in favor of assisted suicide, delivering high-profile speeches for which he commands considerable speaking fees. For one 2007 speech at Florida University he was reportedly paid $50,000.

Late last year Kevorkian was the subject of a favorable biopic, starring Hollywood star Al Pacino, entitled “You Don’t Know Jack.”