Right To Die Quotes

• People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

  Polly Toynbee

  People, Want, Longing

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

  Peter Saunders

  Euthanasia, Duty, Dies

  Peter Saunders' Keynote Address at Alliance of Pro-life Students Celebration and Fundraiser in London, pjsaunders.blogspot.ru. October 21, 2016.

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Support, Catholic

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• It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

  Horace

  Sweet, Drink, Homeland

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