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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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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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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 for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.
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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.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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 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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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