Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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?

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

I can paint in jail.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

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

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

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

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 have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

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.

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.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

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

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

The law doesn't create a right.

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.

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

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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

Everyone is going to die.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

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

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