What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

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.

Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.