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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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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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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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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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 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 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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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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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 single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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Many support what I am doing.
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