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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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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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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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 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 ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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