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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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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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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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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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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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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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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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