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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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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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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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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