Euthanasia Quotes

• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

  Stephen Hawking

  Pain, Thinking, Should Have

  "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Catholic, Killing

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

  Stephen Hawking

  Animal, Suffering, Assisted Suicide

  "Scientist Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

  Marya Mannes

  Able, Dignity, Life Is

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• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Poison, Littles

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• For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Children, Thinking

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• Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Names, Catholic

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• The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

  Peter Saunders

  Duty, Right To Die, Dies

  Peter Saunders' Keynote Address at Alliance of Pro-life Students Celebration and Fundraiser in London, pjsaunders.blogspot.ru. October 21, 2016.

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• One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Oneself

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

  Brittany Maynard

  Life, Death, Time

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• A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Land, Eugenics, People

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• My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

  Eric Morecambe

  Clever, Garden, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Long, Smooth, Danger

  The Child Who Never Grew Ch. 2

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• The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Choices, Abortion

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Decision, Wish

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• O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, World, Vex

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [314]

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• Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

  Bram Stoker

  Grateful, Comforting, Excellent

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.329, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
  present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
  candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
  and/or euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evil, Abortion, Catholic

  Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

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• The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

  John Shelby Spong

  Godly, Views, Decision

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• If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Literature, Politician

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Suicide, Believe, Government

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• One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Mercy, Poor

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• I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable.

  Susan P. Crawford

  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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