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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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Michigan
Dr. Death
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The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.
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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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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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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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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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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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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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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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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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've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Many support what I am 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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian
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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