Euthanasia Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Trying, Ease

  Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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• Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

  Peter Singer

  Doctors, Want, Able

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired, Blow, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

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• They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

  Jay London

  Adults, Said, Concerned

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• As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Life And Love, Sick

  Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.318, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Life And Death, Abortion

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• I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Actors, Wanted, Ifs

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• Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Suicide, Should Have, Guilty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.794, Library of Alexandria

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• In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  States, Certain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

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• We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Friendship, Bff

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

  Norma McCorvey

  Two, Cards, Patient

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• Dying is not a crime.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Dying, Atheism, Crime

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• If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

  Justin Timberlake

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

  Scott Stapp

  Christian, Creeds

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• Whose life is it, anyway?

  Sue Rodriguez

  Life Is

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• When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

  Norman MacCaig

  Edinburgh, Ridiculous, Teach

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• We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

  Ivor Novello

  Believe, Mean, Cutting

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• The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Abortion, Abuse

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• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Flames, Pro Life

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1971). “Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, HarperCollins

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• In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

  Werner Herzog

  Insane, Germany, Would Be

  "Werner Herzog INTO THE ABYSS Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Physicians

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• If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Men, Issues

  "The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west".

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• The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Usual, Mankind, Conclusion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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