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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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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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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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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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