Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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.

We are all terminal.

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

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

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

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I am not a sentimental person.

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

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

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

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.

Let's hope you feel better now.

Fear controls you.

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

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

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

I'm not a romantic.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

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.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

The law is cruel.

I don't persuade to suicide.

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

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.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.