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Dying is not a crime.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
Jazz Musician
Painter
Pathologist
Physician
Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
Jacob Jack Kevorkian
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Euthanasia
Atheism
Crime
Dying

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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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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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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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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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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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 don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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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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