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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
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Michigan
Dr. Death
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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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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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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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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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Many support what I am doing.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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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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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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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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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