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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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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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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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