Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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

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.

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?

I can paint in jail.

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.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

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.

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.

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.

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

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

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.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

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.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.