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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Jack Kevorkian
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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Michigan
Dr. Death
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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 am not a sentimental person.
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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Jack Kevorkian
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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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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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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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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 lying to myself like most people.
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian
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.
Jack Kevorkian
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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