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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

— Jack Kevorkian

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.

— Phil Gingrey

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

— Ami Bera

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

— Janine di Giovanni

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

— Polly Toynbee

I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.

— Harmon Killebrew

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

— Henry L. Stimson

I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.

— Konrad Lorenz

✗Opposing Perspectives

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

— Paul Kalanithi

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

— Jack Kevorkian