The patient decides when it's best to go.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Dying is not a crime.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

I am not a sentimental person.

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

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.