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

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

- Jack Kevorkian

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

- Jay London

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

- John Key

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

- Stella Young