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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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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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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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Dying is not a crime.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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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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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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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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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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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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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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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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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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