Assisted Suicide Quotes

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Pain, Thinking, Should Have

  "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Tener la posibilidad de elegir al final de mi vida se ha convertido en algo increíblemente importante. Me ha dado una sensación de paz en un momento que, de otro modo, estaría dominado por el miedo, la incertidumbre y el dolor.

  Brittany Maynard

  Vida, muerte, tiempo

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• There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

  Brittany Maynard

  Suicide, Cancer, Suicidal

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• If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

  Sue Rodriguez

  Vida, Muerte, Suicidio

  Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

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• We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

  Stephen Hawking

  Animal, Suffering, Euthanasia

  "Scientist Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Siempre que el pueblo está a favor del matrimonio gay o de la marihuana medicinal o del suicidio asistido, de repente la "voluntad del pueblo" se va por la ventana.

  Bill Maher

  Suicide, Weed, Gay

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• Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Exercise, People

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.618, Harvard University Press

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• Como creyentes, ¿cómo no ver que el aborto, la eutanasia y el suicidio asistido son un terrible rechazo del don de la vida y del amor de Dios? Y como creyentes, ¿cómo no sentir el deber de rodear a los enfermos y a los desamparados con el calor de nuestro afecto y el apoyo que les ayude a abrazar siempre la vida?

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Life And Love, Sick

  Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.318, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Physicians

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• Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• En primer lugar, en principio, estoy en contra del suicidio asistido por médicos y, en segundo lugar, creo que es prerrogativa del gobierno federal controlar las normas sobre drogas. Y la idea de utilizar una sustancia controlada para acabar con la vida de alguien es algo con lo que no estoy de acuerdo. Puedo ver la idea de usar sustancias controladas para aliviar el dolor de alguien. Eso tiene sentido.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Pain, Believe

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

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Physicians, Use

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• La eutanasia y el suicidio asistido nunca son actos de misericordia aceptables. Siempre explotan gravemente al que sufre y al desesperado, extinguiendo la vida en nombre de la propia "calidad de vida".

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Names, Catholic

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• I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

  Bill Maher

  Suicide, Moving, Abortion

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• La vida humana tiene dignidad a cualquier edad, y acabar con una vida humana inocente siempre está mal. Creo que nuestra nación, a todos los niveles de gobierno, debe rechazar cualquier plan que permita o promueva el suicidio asistido y la eutanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Suicidio, Creer, Gobierno

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• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezequiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

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• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Suicide, Fate, Science

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• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Suicide, Gay, Marijuana

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