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I'm not lying to myself like most people.

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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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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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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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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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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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Dying is not a crime.
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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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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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I am not a sentimental person.
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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'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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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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