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I am not a sentimental person.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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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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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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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 don't crave publicity, you know.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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Dying is not a crime.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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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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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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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