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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
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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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 a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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