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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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 have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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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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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Dying is not a crime.
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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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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.
Jack Kevorkian
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Jack Kevorkian
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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