Assisted Dying Quotes

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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.

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

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.

Incurably sick persons should be granted mercy death.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

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

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

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

death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.

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

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Compassionate killing

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.