The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Not being able to touch the severely aggressive dog until after it has been sedated before euthanasia is just as sad, because… — Chris Sparks Copy Share Image
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Some years ago a Belgian couple committed euthanasia together. He (eighty-three) had terminal cancer and she (seventy-eight), suffering from other serious age-related… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between… — Greg Norman Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view:… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they… — John Key Copy Share Image
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
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