Right To DIE
"It isn't ending life that's important, it's ending suffering."
-Jack Kevorkian
-Jack Kevorkian
"She wanted to die with her dignity intact."
-Dr. Jack Kevorkian about Janet Adkins to the Chicago Tribune (Chicago Tribune 1990)
-Dr. Jack Kevorkian about Janet Adkins to the Chicago Tribune (Chicago Tribune 1990)
"We need better palliative care but we also need the right to die. When the day comes that the quality of my life comes to a point that I think I have no life then I should have the right to die. At the moment all I can do is hide somewhere and commit suicide.I don’t want to have to suffer like I have seen people suffer."
-Rudi Vogels 2010
"Dying is not a crime."
-Dr. Jack Kevorkian
"Some people want to eke out every second of life–no matter how grim–and that is their right. But others do not. And that should be their right."
- Betty Rollin, author of First, You Cry and Last Wish
Individuals who feel that their life is no longer worth living may choose euthanasia or PAS. The Constitution does not state the ethicality of euthanasia and PAS. The right to die is similar to the right to live in that people have the right to live the life that they choose.
In 1996, a U.S. District judge struck down Washington State's assisted suicide ban, which had been passed through a referendum. And a federal judge concluded the 14th Amendment protects the right to physician-assisted suicide.