If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

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.

Dying is not a crime.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

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

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.