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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.
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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.
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
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.
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
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 think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
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.
The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
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.
I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
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'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.
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.
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.
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.
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.
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.
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?
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
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.
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 want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
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.
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
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.