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Jack Kevorkian [1928-0] American

Rank: 101
Activist, Pathologist

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. He 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.

Medical, Experience, Death, God, Independence, Positive, Romantic, Smile, Society, Sports

Quote	Tags	Rank
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.	Experience, Positive	101
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.	God	102
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.		103
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.	Experience, Medical	104
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.	Independence	105
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.	Society	106
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?		107
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.		108
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.		109
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.		110
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.		111
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.		112
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.	Sports	113
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.		114
I'm not lying to myself like most people.		115
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.	Death	116
Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.		117
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.		118
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.	Medical	119
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.		123
The patient decides when it's best to go.	Medical	124
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.		125
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.		126
I don't persuade to suicide.		201
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.		202
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.		203
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.		204
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.		205
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.	Medical	206
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.	Smile	207
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.		208
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.		209
Let's hope you feel better now.		210
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?		211
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.		212
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.		213
I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.		214
I have no regrets, none whatsoever.		215
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.		216
How can you regret helping a suffering patient?		217
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.		218
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.		219
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.		220
Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?		221
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.		222
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.		223
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.		224
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.		225
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.		226
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.		301
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.		302
Everyone is going to die.		303
I can paint in jail.		304
The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.		305
We are all terminal.		306
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.		307
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.		308
If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.		309
Liberty means more to me than life itself.		310
What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.		311
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.		312
The law doesn't create a right.		313
You've gotta know what death is to know life!		314
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.		315
Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.		316
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.		317
I'm not radical.		318
I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.		319
I'm not a romantic.	Romantic	320
I am not a sentimental person.		321
The law is cruel.		322
Fear controls you.		323
Many support what I am doing.		324
I don't crave publicity, you know.		325

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