There is a difference between a person who is dying and a…

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time…

— Brittany Maynard

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…

— George W. Bush

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if…

— John Rawls

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain -…

— Miriam Toews

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of…

— Pope John Paul II

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

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

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

— Sue Rodriguez

“Does the kind of thinking that permits assisted suicide provide a moral basis for protecting the preciousness of human life or does it fail…

— Arthur J. Dyck

“The military is not so much a job, it is more of a legally assisted suicide program.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Stephen Hawking

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…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“At stake then in the debate over assisted suicide is nothing less than a shift away from a moral structure that is at once…

— Arthur J. Dyck

“The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now…

— Arthur J. Dyck

What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example,…

— John Rawls