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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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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 have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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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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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 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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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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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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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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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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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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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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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 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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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