Kesha Rogers Quotes

The proposed Health Care Reform bill will put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

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.

Incurably sick persons should be granted mercy death.

We don’t have a right to die; we have a duty to die.

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

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.

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

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.

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.

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

These end of life decisions are so difficult and so personal that government ought to stay out of it.

l believe that if we were to legalize voluntary euthanasia then, no matter how tightly the law was framed, in ten years time no Granny would be safe.

It is the duty of the doctor to prolong life. It is not his duty to prolong dying.

The “right to death" can easily become a threat to the life of patients whose treatment is hampered by lack of funds.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.