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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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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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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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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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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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 Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Dying is not a crime.
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The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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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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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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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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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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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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 learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
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