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

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.
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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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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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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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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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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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 suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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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The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Many support what I am doing.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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