Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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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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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'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 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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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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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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We are all terminal.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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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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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 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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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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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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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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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'm not radical.