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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.
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 don't crave publicity, you know.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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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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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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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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