If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.
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.
Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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.
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
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.
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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.
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.
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.
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?
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.
