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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
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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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