Assisted Suicide Quotes:

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

topic: Pain, Thinking, Should Have, Terminal Illness, Terminal

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

- Brittany Maynard

topic: Pain, Emotional, Choices, Freedom To Choose, End Of Life

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

- Brittany Maynard

topic: Suicidal, Emotional, Differences, Assisted Suicide

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

- Sue Rodriguez

source: Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

topic: Giving, Body, Consent, Death With Dignity, Assisted Suicide

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Animal, Suffering, Humans, Physician Assisted Suicide, Assisted Suicide

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical ***** or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

- Bill Maher

topic: Suicide, Gay, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

- John Rawls

source: John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.618, Harvard University Press

topic: Suicide, Exercise, People, Assisted Suicide

As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Suicide, Life And Love, Sick, Embrace Life, Assisted Suicide

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

topic: Suicide, Technology, Physicians, Antibiotics, Physician Assisted Suicide

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Men, Thinking, Talking, Assisted Suicide

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

topic: Suicide, Doctors, Years, Ethical Issues, Western Medicine

First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

- George W. Bush

topic: Suicide, Pain, Believe, Prerogative, Physician Assisted Suicide

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Physicians, Use, Hypothetical, Physician Assisted Suicide

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

- Bill Maher

topic: Suicide, Moving, Abortion, Pro Abortion, Assisted Suicide

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

topic: Suicide, Believe, Government, Assisted Suicide

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

topic: Suicide, Motivation, Views, Social Policy, Physician Assisted Suicide

With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

- Arthur Caplan

topic: Suicide, Science, Fate, Terminal Illness, Assisted Suicide

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.

- John Rawls

topic: Religious, Party, Believe, Physician Assisted Suicide, Political Arguments

Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal ***** is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.

- Wayne Allyn Root

topic: Suicide, Gay, Marijuana, States Rights, Assisted Suicide