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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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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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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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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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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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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I am not a sentimental person.
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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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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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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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Many support what I am doing.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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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