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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Jazz Musician
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Pathologist
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Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
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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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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.
Jack Kevorkian
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
Jack Kevorkian
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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 am not a sentimental person.
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
Jack Kevorkian
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
Jack Kevorkian
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Jack Kevorkian
