“This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.”

— Jack Kevorkian

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 16 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

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American pathologist, euthanasia activist 1928–2011

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