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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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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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 for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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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'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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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 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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