She had a cervical/spinal tumor which left her paralyzed and in great pain for three years. As she was meeting in her hotel room with Dr. Kevorkian, 2 officials from the Oakland City police department and as many as 20 local police officers "pushed in a door" and halted the session, saying they were there to "save" Correa. The officers had no warrant, but said that they felt they didn't need one, comparing this meeting to a suicidal person with a gun to their head or about to jump off a bridge. They also seized Correa's pain medication, sympathy cards, and rosary. The police said that the medication was later returned, and that there were only six officers, not twenty (Chavez A16). .
During an interview, when asked about the break in, Correa said, "My privacy has been violated." She was also quoted saying, "I came to die." And the happenings in the hotel room only made her more determined not to leave Michigan alive, which she didn't (Chavez A16). .
From 1990 though 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian aided in about one hundred and five deaths. He was convicted of second degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance on March 26, 1999, after filming himself giving a lethal injection to patient .
Thomas Youk. Kevorkian faced up to life in prison for the death charge and up to seven years in prison on the controlled substance charge (The Detroit News).
Holland was one of the first countries to legalize voluntary Euthanasia. This means that doctors will only be able to help their patients die at the patient's request and under very strict circumstances. "Strict safeguards are set down in order to avoid any abuse; the patient's request should be considered and voluntary, the patient must be facing "unremitting and unbearable suffering", the patient has to be fully informed about alternatives and prospects and two doctors must be consulted and must agree that all the conditions are met," (Holland legalizes Voluntary Euthanasia.