Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

About Jack Kevorkian:

Jack Kevorkian is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was often portrayed in the media as "Dr. Death"; however, many consider him a hero as he helped set the platform for reform. He famously said, "Dying is not a crime."
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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.

Jack Kevorkian

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain fro...

Jack Kevorkian

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. 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.

Jack Kevorkian

Let's hope you feel better now.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

Author Bio

  • NameJack Kevorkian
  • DescriptionAmerican pathologist, euthanasia activist
  • AliasesDr. Death
  • BornMay 20, 1928
  • DiedJune 3, 2011
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysician; Composer; Painter; Jazz Musician