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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting it's responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

This is something I would want.

They must charge me; either they go or I go, that means they'll never convict me in a court of law.

My specialty is death.

[from his book Prescription: Medicide - The Goodness of Planned Death, p. 214, para. 3] Under extraordinary circumstances like these I feel it is only decent and fair to explain my ultimate aim. I emphasized that it is not simply to help suffering or doomed persons kill themselves - that is merely the first step, an early distasteful professional obligation (now called medicide) that nobody in his or her right mind could savor. I explained that what I find most satisfying is the prospect of making possible the performance of invaluable experiments or other beneficial medical acts under conditions that this first unpleasant step can help establish - in a word, obitiatry, as defined earlier.