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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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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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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 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 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 single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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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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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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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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