Jack Kevorkian Quotes - Page 2

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

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

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

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.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

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.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

I am not a sentimental person.