Janet Good has taken to sleeping in a bit, ever since the doctors told her she had terminal pancreatic cancer last year.

Janet Good, a longtime civil rights worker who cooperated with Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help terminally ill people die, ended her own life yesterday in her home in suburban Detroit.

Janet Good, 72, another of Dr. Kevorkian's associates who is, herself, dying of pancreatic cancer, was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Janet Good is dying.

"Janet Good has exactly the qualities society lacks today," Dr. Kevorkian said in an interview.

Being told that she had terminal cancer was not, incredibly, the worst thing that happened to Janet Good last year.

The week before her daughter died, Janet Good also indicated that she had changed her mind about taking the route of assisted suicide.

"We should all know that he hasn't changed, and I think he never will," said Janet Good, president of the Michigan chapter of the Hemlock Society, which supports doctor-assisted suicide.

The suicide took place in the home of Janet Good, 72, founder of the Michigan chapter of the National Hemlock Society, an American right-to-die organization.

"This was outrageous," Janet Good, an assistant to Dr. Kevorkian, said at the Friday night news conference.