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.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

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.

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.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.