Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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 have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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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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We are all terminal.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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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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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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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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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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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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I don't crave publicity, you know.