Quote

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

Jack Kevorkian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
Composer
Jazz Musician
Painter
Pathologist
Physician
Politician
Pontiac
Michigan
Dr. Death
Jacob Jack Kevorkian
Jacob Kevorkian
Helping
Killer
Killers
Suppose
Patient
Killing
Dies

More quotes by Jack Kevorkian

Image
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
Dying is not a crime.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
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
Image
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?
Jack Kevorkian
Image
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian
Image
Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
Jack Kevorkian