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

The patient decides when it's best to go..

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets..

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..

Dying is not a crime..

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail i….

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….

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 sel….

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink..

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire..

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

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..

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience..

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

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 am not a sentimental person..

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 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. D….

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inope….

The law doesn't create a right..

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