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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.
You work with doctors and families, and medical colleagues, and all the people involved in it without government or religious intrusion.
You remember those words of Patrick Henry? We learn them, and to me they’re just words, until you get into a situation where you’re going to lose your liberty. Then you see how valuable liberty is. First of all, in a civilized society, this could never be
You might say I’m a philosophic nut, or a nutty philosopher. It doesn’t matter. Words don’t mean anything. If you dig into anybody’s character, you can find eccentricities if you can-you can characterize as nutty.
You have no right bargaining to get organs from condemned men. If you execute men who want to donate freely and don’t take their organs, do that first, and then start the bargaining about other men on death row. The many men on death row are willing to don
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don’t care.
When you say a person should be allowed to die, inject them quickly and painlessly, not let them wither away and starve to death. That is inconceivable. It’s unspeakable.
When history looks back, it will prove what I’ll die knowing.
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That’s not a smile.
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren’t. There are some I’m fairly close with… we talk.
We’re… letting them starve and thirst to death in-in hospitals. The Germans did that in the concentration camps.
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
They’ve inhibited-taken my license away. They suspended it, made it tough for me to get any drugs. And-and then, when I use gas, they scorn it. Oh, come on.
They take away their feeding and water when they’re in coma and let them die. I mean, you’re validating what the Nazis did in concentration camps.
There’s no doubt I expect to die in prison.
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I’m not a criminal. The parole board knows I’m not a criminal. The judge knows I’m not a criminal.
The Supreme Court of the United States… has validated the Nazi method of execution in… concentration camps, starving them to death.
The reason I’m doing it in a fashion that’s not entirely acceptable to everybody is because of the prosecutor… and the intimidation. They threaten me with jail; I’m hauled into court… They come in and confiscate everything in the house.
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.
The patient decides when it’s best to go.
The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working. It’s like the Romans, they’re happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Religion is an internal spiritual world, and I have my own, with my god, Johann Sebastian Bach. I mean, why not?
Prove it! Cite a case on common law of assisted suicide prosecution. Cite it!
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion.
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.
Maybe I won’t stay out of prison. Who knows?
Mandela didn’t stay out of prison, neither did Martin Luther King! What’s the difference? Were they wrong?
Look at the forces against me. They don’t want me out. They’re afraid I’ll cause trouble if I get out.
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.
Let’s hope you feel better now.
Just like everything else, you let any doctor do it, and some are going to abuse, because you’ve got crooked-some crooked doctors out there.
It’s the boredom that kills you. You read until you’re tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you’re tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.
I’d find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
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 think most people would pick sudden heart attac,k and in sleep. We assume that’s the best way to die, because you never know.
I live cheap, right.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
I don’t persuade to suicide.
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.
I didn’t do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me-does that sound selfish?
Given enough time, you see if there’s any retrogression of the process or any progression or any kind of amelioration. It’s subjective. All-many medical diagnoses and interpretations are subjective. That’s why this can’t be legislated.
Frst, there’s no incentive for the doctor to do more than he has to do. In fact, he wants to do less now. All salaried people would like to do less for the money. And second, you prevent abuse.
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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?
During the break, look up your case during the break. Look up your case. Prove it to me, then I’ll apologize. You ain’t got a case. And no law.
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.
Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I’m doing.
Am I a criminal? The world knows I’m not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You’ve lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
All the big powers they’ve silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine’s a business today. It’s a business.
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Kill me, or else you are a murderer!
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that m
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
My “fear” is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will co
It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point.
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Evil is whatever distracts.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
모든 죄악의 기본은 조바심과 게으름이다.
진실없는 삶이란 있을 수가 없다. 진실이란 삶 그 자체인 것이다.
요한 23세
인간은 와인과도 같다 – 어떤 것들은 식초로 변한다, 하지만 최고의 경우는 세월이가면서 향상되는 것이지.
여기 길의 맨끝에 서 있고 무더기의 정상에 서있다.
누구나 교황이 될 수 있다; 증거로는 내가 교황이 된걸 보면 알겠지.
내 눈으로 당신의 눈 깊은곳을 들여다보았따. 나의 심장을 당신의 심장 곁에 두었다.
나는 떨기 위해 만들어졌고 두려워한다!
가족은 인간 사회의 가장 중요한 필수 조건이다.
When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it’s much better now.
We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.