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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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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 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'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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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'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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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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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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 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 your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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 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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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