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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.
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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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