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Jack Kevorkian

" The patient decides when it's best to go. "

Suicide

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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. "

World , Society , Common sense , Religious

" 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. "

Work , World , Name , Religious

" Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing. "

Support , Doctors

" All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. "

Right , Choice

" 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. "

Money , Business , Today , Illness

" As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. "

Experience , Duty

" The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. "

Advice , Decision

" 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. "

Liberty

" 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? "

Right , Suffering , Now , End , First , Help

" Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out. "

Want , Trouble

" 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. "

Age , Choice , Options

" The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. "

Death , states , United

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