The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
• Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
• If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
• You've gotta know what death is to know life!
• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.