He is the son of Morris A. Wessel, a pediatrician, and Irmgard R. Wessel, a clinical social worker.
With former Yale School of Nursing Dean Florence Wald he studied the treatment of terminally ill patients, which Wald believed was often futile and dehumanizing.
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Mechanic died while the building was under construction and the opening gala on January 16, 1967 was presided-over by his widow, actress Elaine Swann, Mayor Theodore McKeldin and Eugene M. Feinblatt, chairman of the Baltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency.