The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

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

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.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

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