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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Michigan
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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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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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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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I didn't do this for other people I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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