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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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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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I am not a sentimental person.
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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 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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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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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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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