"Kelly's determination to speak out about why she wanted the choice of an assisted death made a huge impact, " she said.
His case is being supported by the British Humanist Association, which wants to establish the right to doctor-assisted death in certain circumstances.
They played both the unedited and edited versions of the tape where Kevorkian is shown having a weak and barely intelligible Youk sign consent forms for his assisted death.
Doctors at the BMA's annual conference in Liverpool this month voted overwhelmingly against supporting a motion "allowing the choice of an assisted death by patients who are terminally ill and who have mental capacity".
The panel of peers, MPs, academics and medical professionals recommended all those with terminal illnesses with less than a year to live should be able to request an assisted death but Lord Falconer said he had been persuaded this should be reduced to six months because of greater certainty of diagnosis.
Although Kevorkian has acknowledged participating in over 100 assisted suicides since 1990, Youk's death was the first time he directly administered a fatal drug.
The doctor-assisted sort would leave the time and place of death to the patient.
In October, Winner told The Times he was not frightened of death and had researched the issue of assisted suicide.
Should a suicide be assisted when a patient is a certain distance from death, or when he has simply given up hope?
Skrzynski emphasized that Kevorkian's trial was not about Youk's illness, euthanasia or the debate over assisted suicide but about the reputed "Dr. Death's" right to kill.
"I felt like by asking for death, it's like asking for assisted suicide, and I didn't want to do that to my family, " she told the AP.
Miss Narayan had looked up forums giving guidance on assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses in the months before her death, the court heard.
Prosecutors initially charged Kevorkian with first-degree murder and assisted suicide after "60 Minutes" showed the tape of Youk's death to a nation-wide audience on Nov. 23.
First, pain is not a particularly significant factor in leading people to ask for death: in the Netherlands, only 5% of requests for assisted suicide or euthanasia come from those who described themselves as being in unbearable pain.
During a Dec. 9 preliminary hearing, Judge Phyllis McMillan ruled that Kevorkian must stand trial for Youk's death and based her decision mostly on the tape of Youk's assisted suicide seen on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Nov. 23.
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