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.Collection: Best
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.Collection: Death
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.Collection: Positive
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.Collection: Freedom
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.Collection: Independence
I'm not a romantic.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Sports
The patient decides when it's best to go.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Medical
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.Collection: Smile
You've gotta know what death is to know life!Collection: Death
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.Collection: Medical
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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.
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.
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?
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.