#euthanasia

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#animals #death #euthanasia #human-rights #death

I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. ↗

— Pamela Bone

#death #euthanasia #right-to-die #death

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#family

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#about #among #applying #catholics #death

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#euthanasia #experience #make #positive #ultimate

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#cases #certain #euthanasia #even #immobile

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. ↗

— Jay London

#asked #concerned #euthanasia #i #me

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients’ dis-ease. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#euthanasia #good-death #medical-ethics #death

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. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #euthanasia #age