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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Physician
Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
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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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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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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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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 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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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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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 have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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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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