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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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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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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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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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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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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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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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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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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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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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