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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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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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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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Dying is not a crime.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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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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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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 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 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'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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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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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