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Jack Kevorkian

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This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.
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Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"? - Page 16 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006

 
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