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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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.

Jack Kevorkian

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 t...

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

Jack Kevorkian

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

Jack Kevorkian

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

Jack Kevorkian

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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