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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.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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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 don't crave publicity, you know.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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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 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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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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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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Many support what I am doing.
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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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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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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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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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