Patient Suffering at End-of-Life

"At the Hemlock Society we get calls daily from desperate people who are looking for someone like Jack Kevorkian to end their lives which have lost all quality... Americans should enjoy a right guaranteed in the European Declaration of Human Rights -- the right not to be forced to suffer. It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to take life without consent."

-- Faye Girsh, Ed.D.
Senior Adviser, Final Exit Network
"How Shall We Die," Free Inquiry
Winter 2001