I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I don't crave publicity, you know.