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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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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 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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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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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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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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 am not a sentimental person.
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