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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
Composer
Jazz Musician
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Pathologist
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Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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 am not a sentimental person.
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Many support what I am doing.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Dying is not a crime.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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 suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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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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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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