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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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Crime
Dying
Euthanasia
Atheism

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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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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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I am not a sentimental person.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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 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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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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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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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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