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Jack Kevorkian
American
Activist
Born:
May 26
,
1928
Died:
Jun 3
,
2011
Death
Die
Life
Me
People
You
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
You
Suffering
Liberty
Country
Nothing
Determine
Self-Determination
Got
Built
How
Ultimate
Die
Going
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.
Jack Kevorkian
God
You
Natural
Doctor
Will
Think
Way
Determines
He
Course
Because
Go
Person
Patients
Happens
Process
Anytime
Natural Process
Asking
Interfere
Means
Interference
Naturally
Ill
Playing
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
Jack Kevorkian
Freedom
People
Pay
Willing
Price
Most
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Jack Kevorkian
Smile
Like
Contempt
Looks
Sneer
Enjoyment
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Life
Suffering
Doctor
Ending
Duty
Out
Carry
Cases
End
Intent
Unfortunately
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Jack Kevorkian
Positive
Experience
Aim
Make
Ultimate
Euthanasia
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Me
You
World
Lost
Sense
Society
Criminal
Religious
Put
Knows
Because
Am
Dogma
Trying
Jail
Common
Fanaticism
Common Sense
I am not a sentimental person.
Jack Kevorkian
Am
Person
Sentimental
We are all terminal.
Jack Kevorkian
Terminal
The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian
Best
Patient
Go
Decide
Medical
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian
Death
Starving
Validated
States
Concentration
Execution
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Method
Camps
Them
United
United States
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Life
Work
You
Natural
World
Problems
India
Religious
Laws
Outlook
Mythology
Name
Ireland
Natural Life
Them
Your
Whole
Pakistan
Why
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
Jack Kevorkian
Delay
Understand
None
Want
Them
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Jack Kevorkian
Law
Trial
No Law
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian
History
Will
Back
Knowing
Looks
Prove
Die
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Jack Kevorkian
Crime
Society
Could
Never
Himself
Any
Which
Enlightened
I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
Jack Kevorkian
Best
Kind
Guy
Friends
Who
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Life
Me
My Life
Gave
Say
All My Life
Born
Said
Always
Question
Want
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.
Jack Kevorkian
You
Hopeless
Seen
Miserable
Cheer
End
Up
Them
Who
Lives
Right
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Life
Me
Live
Would
Able
Finger
Tube
Move
Want
Neck
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
Jack Kevorkian
Me
Every
Jews
Way
See
Had
Armenians
Were
Lot
Interest
Holocaust
Much
Suffer
Publicity
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
Religion
Considered
Area
Than
Different
Conventional
Different Areas
Centers
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian
Me
You
Care
Honor
Cite
Contempt
dont Care
Your
Your Honor
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
Jack Kevorkian
Will
Only
Call
Court
Go
Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
Jack Kevorkian
Prison
Out
Stay
Knows
Maybe
Who
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian
Prison
Doubt
No Doubt
Expect
Die
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