Top 65 Quotes About Euthanasia: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Euthanasia

#1. Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

Pope John Paul II

#2. Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Carl Hiaasen

#3. Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In these circumstances one cannot say that to choose to die quickly is obviously irrational.

Peter Singer

#4. Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Milan Kundera

#5. 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

#6. It occurred to me, not for the first time, that if Britain is ever to sort itself out, it is going to require a lot of euthanasia.

Bill Bryson

#7. 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.

John Key

#8. Too fucking late for sorry, innit? I hope he catches bubonic plague and dies in slow fucking agony the day before they legalise euthanasia and then I'm gonna go and learn Riverdance and I don't care how fucking long it takes cos I wanna do it on his grave.

Richard Rider

#9. Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Marya Mannes

#10. The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Stella Young

#11. In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

Werner Herzog

#12. Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Bram Stoker

#14. [ ... ] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [ ... ]

Sebastian Horsley

#15. Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Dustin Hoffman

#16. My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

Dov Davidoff

#17. The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people - while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices - smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.

Tony Judt

#18. For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

Mother Teresa

#19. We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.

Min Zhou

#20. So it's okay to kill if your intentions are pure?" "Hasn't that always been the case?" Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. "Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.

Judd Trichter

#21. 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.

Peter Singer

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.

Dawn French

#25. A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

#26. That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. But to die of laughter
this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Max Beerbohm

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

Ezekiel Emanuel

#29. If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

Tony Blair

#30. Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said that if the United States continued to kill life at its beginnings with abortion, at its mid-day with the handicapped, and at twilight with euthanasia, it would lead to the catastrophic midnight of nuclear war.

Kelly Bowring

#31. Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Pope John Paul II

#32. Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

J.G. Ballard

#33. It's unfortunate that your offspring make people wish for a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a universally beloved form of birth control, but when elderly women literally everywhere are better parents than you, perhaps it's time to hang up the baby-making spurs.

Neil Hilborn

#34. Absolute monarchy, ... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

David Hume

#35. There were signs and I missed them. For instance, Crake said once, "Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain?" "You mean, commit euthanasia?" said Jimmy. "Like putting down your pet turtle?" "Just tell me," said Crake.
"I don't know. What kind of love, what kind of pain?

Margaret Atwood

#36. The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#37. 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

#38. Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not ... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

#39. Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is life-long and sadly, sometimes, that includes protection from discomfort and pain, even if, in the vet's opinion, this means euthanasia.

Nick Trout

#40. Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Pope John Paul II

#41. Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Pearl S. Buck

#42. They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Jay London

#43. I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

Jim Carrey

#44. 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

#45. My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Jack Kevorkian

#46. The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

Jamie Fellner

#47. Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#48. Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#49. Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

Ingrid Newkirk

#50. 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

#51. One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?

Peter Singer

#53. Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It's because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live.

Aidan Chambers

#54. 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

#55. No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

Thomas Malthus

#56. The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#57. Whose life is it, anyway?

Sue Rodriguez

#58. The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

#59. Dying is not a crime.

Jack Kevorkian

#60. In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Jack Kevorkian