Euthanasia Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old euthanasia quotes, euthanasia sayings, and euthanasia proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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. Miriam Toews
Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately. Dustin Hoffman
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. Peter Singer
Absolute monarchy is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the British constitution. David Hume
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
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom. Pope John Paul II
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder. Stella Young
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved. Ingrid Newkirk
It is a comfort to learn that there is still interest in the morality of killing people. For that is what euthanasia is - killing people. You can safely bet that every time euthanasia is successfully performed there is a corpse. Anthony Fisher
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
Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty. Ramman Kenoun
Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. Marya Mannes
Instead of employing euthanasia, we need to provide palliative care, showing the afflicted that they are loved and respected by our caring for them, not by saying, You would be better off dead. Anthony Fisher
Assisted suicide will discriminate against the old, the ill and the disabled. Diane Coleman
Assisted suicide is not a benefit, it's a threat. Diane Coleman
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. G.K. Chesterton
Euthanasia as an act intended to shorten life with a supposedly merciful motivation, and proposed to focus on the giving of a lethal injection as the act. Anthony Fisher
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
The success or failure of the euthanasia movement is based on the classification of feeding tubes as a medical treatment. Bobby Schindler
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
Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered. Richard Paul Evans
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button. Jack Kevorkian
Assisted suicide is a reversal of the proper role of a doctor as a healer, comforter and consoler to an improper role of the physician causing a patient's death. Kenneth Stevens
A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured. Andrew Coyne
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. Neil Gorsuch
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
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus. Michael Bassey Johnson
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
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. Carl Hiaasen
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. Ezekiel Emanuel
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. Ezekiel Emanuel
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die. Friedrich Nietzsche
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease. Jack Kevorkian
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. Jack Kevorkian
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
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. Pope Benedict XVI
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were Pope John Paul II
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
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel The Hippocratic Oath