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I'm not lying to myself like most people.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Michigan
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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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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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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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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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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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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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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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