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Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. -- Pope John Paul II
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. -- Jay London
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button. -- Jack Kevorkian
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. -- Pearl S. Buck
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. -- David Hume
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. -- Bram Stoker
Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately. -- Dustin Hoffman
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. -- Marya Mannes
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself. -- Pope John Paul II
Dying is not a crime. -- Jack Kevorkian
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. -- Jack Kevorkian
The right to die can easily become the duty to die. -- Peter Saunders
I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me. -- Scott Stapp
If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop. -- Justin Timberlake
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. -- A. A. Milne
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder. -- Stella Young
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. -- William Shakespeare
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. -- Norman MacCaig
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. -- Bob Woodward
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way. -- Dov Davidoff
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. -- Eric Morecambe
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death. -- Milan Kundera
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. -- Jack Kevorkian
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. -- Peter Singer
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia. -- Gary Bauer
It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients. -- Norma McCorvey
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. -- Carl Hiaasen
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. -- John Key
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. -- Pope Benedict XVI
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia. -- Juliana Hatfield
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable. -- Susan P. Crawford
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.' -- Miriam Toews
In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia -- Nat Hentoff
["] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia ["] -- Sebastian Horsley
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia. -- Max Beerbohm
To be faithful to your wife is wisdom but to acquire concubines is like signing your euthanasia -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals. -- Jamie Fellner
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it. -- Richard Brookhiser
If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it. -- Tony Blair
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! -- Pope John Paul II
In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia. -- Werner Herzog

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