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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
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Michigan
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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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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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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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Dying is not a crime.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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