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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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?

Jack Kevorkian

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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Everyone is going to die.

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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

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

Jack Kevorkian

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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Jack Kevorkian

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

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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.

Jack Kevorkian

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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You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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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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We are all terminal.

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

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I can paint in jail.

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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

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

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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

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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.

Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

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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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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

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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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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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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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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Jack Kevorkian

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

Jack Kevorkian

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

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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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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

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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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