I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

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

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.