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 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.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Dying is not a crime.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.