Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long smooth-sounding words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless..

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

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

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.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

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.

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

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.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Incurably sick persons should be granted mercy death.

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

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

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

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Death is better than disease.

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

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.