Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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

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.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

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

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

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

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.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

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.

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.

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.

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

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.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Finding a balance between hoped for cures and respect for life: That is the challenge.

Incurably sick persons should be granted mercy death.

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

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

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.