Euthanasia Quotes

“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, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
― Sarah Palin

“I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”
― Pamela Bone

“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, Prescription Medicide

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”
― Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race

“I love my mother.

My mother loves my dad.

Those two facts are undeniable.

I want my father to live.
I want him to fight to live as long as he can.

My mother wants to let him pass.
She does not want him suffering anymore.

She says that I am not there in the middle of the night at home, when he begs her to let him die.

I say that he should not be taking the medicine that the doctor is prescribing, that it made Mike Tyson want to eat his opponents young.”
― John Passaro, 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life

“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A slight deviation of the gun barrel and the bullet misses vital organs but inflicts terrible wounds. Reports in newspapers and journals indicate that the preferred method is to put the gun into the mouth and shoot upward, but even here there have sometimes been survivors.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“Some doctors who specialize in the care of geriatric patients have told me that there are rare occasions when they have heard a very old, sick, and frail person announce, “I’m going to die today.” And the individual did. But it doesn’t happen often.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“The helium drives oxygen from the brain, causing rapid brain death and leaves no traces.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“However much the drink is loaded with sweeteners, patients say it still tastes awful. Usually observers have noticed that the patients are so desperate to die that they ignore the nasty tasting drink. The Oregon dosage is:
 
Seconal capsules reduced to powder - 9 grams
& Pure water - 4 ounces

– OR –
 
Liquid Nembutal - 9 grams
& Add water to suit”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“He seems to feel remorse – not over the fact that he committed murder, but because, at the very end, the woman he'd idolised betrayed him about the ramifications to his own life.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

“Every day, I live with guilt about my mother’s death in a hospice as do thousands of other Australians and people from around the world. Yet society wants to sanitise euthanasia, sending us down a slippery slope of grey and murky murderous acts.”
― Vanessa de Largie

“There have been many sad cases of accidental deaths of people who lit charcoal fires in tents or rooms without proper ventilation. But this method done deliberately for suicide carries with it a huge potential for explosion or fires that could kill other people. Sometimes the gas has leaked into the rooms where innocent people were sleeping. In Florida in 1996 a French woman on vacation decided to kill herself by gas; not only did she die, but also her husband and daughter, which she had not intended – her suicide note spoke of her wanting them to live without her being a burden.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“A few terminally ill persons I have known have quietly ascended their favorite mountain late in the day and made sure that they were above the freezing line for that particular time of the year. They used public transport to get there so that a parked car would not be spotted. Then, wearing light clothing, they sat down in a secluded spot to await the end.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“Remember, there are two ways to starve oneself to death: without food and fluids, which is the quicker way but more painful; and with fluids only, which is slower but less painful. In both methods, painkilling drugs and skilled nursing are desirable.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“If family circumstances unfortunately oblige you to end your life in a hospital or a motel, it is gracious to leave a note apologizing for the shock and inconvenience to the staff. I have also heard of individuals leaving a generous tip to the motel staff to compensate them for the disturbance caused.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“It is astonishing how many people do not make a will – legal scholars say about 85 percent of the population dies intestate.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“If assistance is justifiable, a date is fixed for the final exit in the presence of two visitors who are there to give advice and moral support, but who do not break the law by physically assisting. The means by which the patient is to die have been agreed on beforehand: either drugs, or helium injected into a plastic hood. The helium method has been proven to be the quickest and most peaceful.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“When a doctor is prescribing a lethal concoction to be taken orally, the drugs are best taken in a dissolved liquid, which can be downed quickly. The occasional delayed-action death is almost always caused by the patient falling asleep before taking enough.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“There is a growing moral view that patients should take charge of their own ends now that more sophisticated means of suicide – as described in this book – are available.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“Woody's life was leaking away but I was the one who stepped forward and pulled the plug. Was my timing right? Could he have had another day at home, another week? Could he have gone for one more turn around the park, had one last supper? We'll never know and to handle the reality of euthanasia I learned to be comfortable with the ambiguity and magnitude of when to take a life. All I know for sure is at that irredeemable moment when I drive the plunger home, I will be there for the person trading the overpowering presence of love and companionship with their pet for the cold, empty ache of loss.”
― Nick Trout, Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon

“I have smoked so much I felt sick. I will not lose my eyesight, I will not lose my hearing, I will not wet myself, I will not forget who I am, I will die first.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“Theoretically he sees no distinction between his mother and any other aged female. He knows that, in a properly organized society, she'd be put into the lethal chamber, because of her arthritis. In spite of which he sends her I don't know how much a week to enable her to drag on a useless existence. I twitted him about it the other day. He blushed and was terribly upset, as though he’d been caught cheating at cards. So, to restore his prestige, he had to change the subject and begin talking about political murder and its advantages with the most wonderfully calm, detached, scientific ferocity. I only laughed at him. ‘One of these days,” I threatened, “I’ll take you at your word and invite you to a man-shooting party.” And what’s more, I will.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“EXIT’s justification was that until a law permitting voluntary euthanasia was passed (which would place responsibility to help primarily on physi­cians), people had no alternative but to take their dying into their own hands.”
― Derek Humphry, Let Me Die Before I Wake: Hemlock's Book of Self-Deliverance for the Dying

“There will be people who would need euthanasia, mainly to 'get out' of their current situation, one that was created by capitalism itself. Since capitalism cannot profit from someone once they are dead, its commandment now is to make all life valuable and precious and to protect it by all means, so it can continue exploiting us.”
― Billy Poon, The Why Of Life: Why We Live Without Purpose and How to Find Meaning in a Pointless Life

“Dr. Emily and her vet tech Kate show up to my house at seven p.m. and we decide to do the euthanasia outside on my back patio. I don’t want Petunia’s soul getting stuck in the house. I want it to float up and out into the sky. Dr. Emily walks me through exactly how it will go. First Petunia will get a medication that will make her sleep. Once she’s asleep she won’t feel anything. Then she will receive medication to slowly and peacefully stop her heart. The whole thing should take around twenty minutes.
“Do you want a few minutes alone with her before we start?” Dr. Emily’s voice is soft. She places her hand on my back. Both she and Kate have known Petunia for years, and like everyone who knows Petunia, they love her. Petunia will die surrounded by love.
I pick my beloved dog up into my arms and walk with her from room to room of our house, recounting all the things we did together in those sacred spaces.
In the kitchen, I say “This is where you watched me bake banana bread and licked spilled flour dustings from the floor.”
In the dining room: “This is where we ate dinner. Remember how beautiful it looked the first night I lit all the candles?”
In the living room: “This is where we watched movies.”
And in my office, my favorite room, the room where my new career and life have flourished, I say “This is where we pulled tarot cards every morning. This is where you helped me sew lampshades. This is where you kept me company while I edited all the photographs.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy

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“Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?
Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?
For if thy life aforetime and behind
To thee was grateful, and not all thy good
Was heaped as in sieve to flow away
And perish unavailingly, why not,
Even like a banqueter, depart the halls,
Laden with life? why not with mind content
Take now, thou fool, thy unafflicted rest?
But if whatever thou enjoyed hath been
Lavished and lost, and life is now offence,
Why seekest more to add—which in its turn
Will perish foully and fall out in vain?
O why not rather make an end of life,
Of labour? For all I may devise or find
To pleasure thee is nothing: all things are
The same forever.”
― Lucretius, Of The Nature of Things