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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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Michigan
Dr. Death
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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 crave publicity, you know.
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I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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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 ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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I am not a sentimental person.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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