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Whose life is it, anyway?
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.
If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.
I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.
Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over - and may have only begun.
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
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.
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.
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.
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 of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.
Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.