Assisted Suicide Quotes

#1. The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now exist in the United States and elsewhere. Furthermore,

Arthur J. Dyck

#2. I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over issues like assisted suicide, gay rights, birth control, and sexual morality.

Jerry A. Coyne

#3. 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.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#4. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#5. Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Gary Bauer

#6. Yolandi, the central character in the book "All My Puny Sorrows" says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Miriam Toews

#7. 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.

Pope John Paul II

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Ezekiel Emanuel

#11. The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'

Miriam Toews

#12. Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Bill Maher

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

Ezekiel Emanuel

#14. My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Jason Mraz

#15. From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Aasif Mandvi

#16. A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

B.F. Skinner

#17. It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Sarah Dessen

#18. A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.

Andrew Coyne

#19. I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.

AnnaSophia Robb

#20. I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Jenny Lewis

#21. I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

Al Purdy

#22. Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bob Beauprez

#23. I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

Hermann Maier

#24. 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.

G.K. Chesterton

#25. The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.

George F. Will

#26. I would have taken Zeb, purely for entertainment value, but he had an actual date, with a real girl. That hadn't happened in a while, so I was a good friend and put my own needs second to the possibility of him actual sex with a real girl.

Molly Harper

#27. Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

Donald Shoup

#28. Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#29. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Charles Peguy

#30. She knew that what made Sr. Adria decide had been the delicate way she had taken the book that he handed her by surprise: she took it delicately, almost lovingly, just as Elisa picked up the embroidery box when she found out about the death of her lover in Elisa Grant by Ballys (Pittsburg, 1883).

Jaume Cabre

#31. i knew him, Horatio

William Shakespeare