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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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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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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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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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 don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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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'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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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