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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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I didn't do this for other people I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
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I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.
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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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