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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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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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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 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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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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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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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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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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Dying is not a crime.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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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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