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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
Jazz Musician
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Michigan
Dr. Death
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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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'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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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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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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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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Dying is not a crime.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Many support what I am doing.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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