Right To Die Quotes

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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

“Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“One can't stop people from killing themselves if they're determined to. It may even be wrong to do so.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“The right to die with dignity is a fundamental universal right of all living creatures.”
― Tripsy South

“This is what I find so strange: we are not necessarily kind to animals. We use them, we eat them. But we don’t like them to suffer. Yet humans must. They have to wait for the great Vet himself to decide how long their anguish must last and how deep it must reach. And He has, as far as I can see, a habit of waiting a long, long time before deciding to end their misery.”
― Beverly Rycroft, A Slim Green Silence

“Self-destruction of a physically fit person is always a tragic waste of life and hurtful to survivors, but life is a personal responsibility. We must each decide for ourselves.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“That fall it was the most talked about book in America, because the pundits could not fathom why a book giving guidance on suicide could be in such huge demand. What, they asked, had happened to America?
 
The simple answer was perhaps contained in my response on ABC-TV’s Nightline program when Barbara Walters asked me: 'Why is it a best-seller, Mr. Humphry?' My reply was: 'Because everybody dies, and nearly every person wonders, however privately, what form that death will take. They’re looking to Final Exit for options.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“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

“Life, simply for life's sake, is obscene. I'm so grateful that I live in a right-to-die state. "Keep your laws off of my body" definitely refers to more than the abortion issue. How DARE they try to make the decision for someone else?
Suicide is liberty.
For a terminally ill person, it can mean death with dignity, versus months and even years of suffering. It's not a popular view, for sure, especially regarding mental illness. However, the resulting loss of liberty, privacy and personal rights after an unsuccessful attempt is beyond cruel, in my eyes. Anyone who has spent time in an asylum can tell you that if you weren't 'crazy' going in, you'll lose your mind in there. To be talked down to like a child and patronized as a 'lesser' person takes its toll.
I have a feeling that this post may get me into trouble, but I felt as though it had to be said...”
― Lioness DeWinter

“There must be a way that African governments can consider legalising Assisted Suicide. A Right to Die should be as acceptable as the Right to Live. People shouldn't be held hostages in their own bodies.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“A Right to Die should be as acceptable as the Right to Live. People shouldn't be held hostages in their own bodies.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“African Governments should legalise Assisted Suicide. A Right to Die should be as acceptable as the Right to Live. People shouldn't be held hostages in their own bodies.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The most crucial matter in this world
is to offer those who wish an exit
a place to turn, a helping hand.
You were not born by yourself,
Why must you vanish that way?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems