QUOTES by Jack Kevorkian
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"I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die."
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"Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van."
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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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"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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"Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way."
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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 for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
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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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"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
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"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma."
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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 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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"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing."
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"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."
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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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"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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"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."
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"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."
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"There is nothing anyone can do anyway. 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 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 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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"This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened."
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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 knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do."
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