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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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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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Dying is not a crime.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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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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