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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?
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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 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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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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