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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're hap...

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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibi...

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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

I'm not a romantic.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It...

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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the d...

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This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academi...

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Prescription: Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are inst...

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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and a...

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Jack Kevorkian

Pathologist

Born: 1928-05-26

Died: 2011-06-03

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (26 May 1928 – 3 June 2011) was an American pathologist. Nicknamed "Doctor Death," he was most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's "right to die", aiding those who wanted to die to reach their goal without suffering. He has claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end.More