All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
I don't crave publicity, you know.
I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
We are all terminal.
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 patient decides when it's best to go.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
