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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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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 American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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