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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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Pathologist
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Michigan
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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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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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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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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Dying is not a crime.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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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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