Assisted Suicide Quotes

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Stephen Hawking

Pain, Thinking, Should Have

"Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Brittany Maynard

Life, Death, Time

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There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

Brittany Maynard

Suicide, Cancer, Suicidal

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If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

Sue Rodriguez

Life, Death, Suicide

Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

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We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

Stephen Hawking

Animal, Suffering, Euthanasia

"Scientist Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2013.

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Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Bill Maher

Suicide, Weed, Gay

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Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

John Rawls

Suicide, Exercise, People

John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.618, Harvard University Press

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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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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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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Thinking, Talking

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Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

George W. Bush

Suicide, Pain, Believe

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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Suicide, Physicians, Use

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Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Pope John Paul II

Suicide, Names, Catholic

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I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

Bill Maher

Suicide, Moving, Abortion

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Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Gary Bauer

Suicide, Believe, Government

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By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Suicide, Motivation, Views

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With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

Arthur Caplan

Suicide, Fate, Science

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What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

John Rawls

Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.

Wayne Allyn Root

Suicide, Gay, Marijuana

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