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Jack Kevorkian

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian

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Jack Kevorkian is urging doctors to recognize that part of their duty is to help patients who want to end their lives. He believes medical professionals should support patients in dying, not just in staying alive.

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