It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

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.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

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

Dying is not a crime.

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.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.