Jack Kevorkian Quotes

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

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

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.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

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.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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

Dying is not a crime.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

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

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

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 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.

Many support what I am doing.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

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.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.