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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
Jazz Musician
Painter
Pathologist
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Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. 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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