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The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Jazz Musician
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Michigan
Dr. Death
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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 hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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