 This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law. |
| You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. |
| 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. |
| I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months. |
| All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. |
| Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. |
| The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. |
| She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that. |
| 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? |
| Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. |
| What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk. |
| Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. |
| My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. |
| The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. |
| I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. |
| I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. |
| I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish? |
| I don't persuade to suicide. |
| As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. |
