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Maybe I won’t stay out of prison. Who knows?

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

Many support what I am doing.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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

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

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.

My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion.

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.

I don’t crave publicity, you know.

I’m not the kind of guy who has best friends.

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.

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.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I’ve seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn’t cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That’s not right.

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

The law doesn’t create a right.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

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

I don’t persuade to suicide.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

The patient decides when it’s best to go.

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

I’d find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

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

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

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

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

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

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.

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

I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.

I didn’t do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me – does that sound selfish?

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I’m a killer.

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

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

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

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.

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.

I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they’re harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can’t survive in a large country.

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