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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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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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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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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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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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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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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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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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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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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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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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Many support what I am 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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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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