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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
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Pathologist
Physician
Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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.
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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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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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Dying is not a crime.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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 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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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.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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