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I don't crave publicity, you know.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
Jazz Musician
Painter
Pathologist
Physician
Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
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Dying is not a crime.
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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 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 trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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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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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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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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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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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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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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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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