Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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• 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

  Suffering, Causes, Helping

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• 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

  Country, Determination, Self

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• 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

  Doctors, Suffering, Racist

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• 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

  Religious, Law, Names

  "Years of Minutes" by Andy Rooney, (p. 339), 2004.

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• When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Fire, Left

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• The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

  Jack Kevorkian

  Animal, Humane Way, Jail

  "Kevorkian suggests guidelines for suicides", www.cnn.com. January 14, 1997.

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Doctors

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. April 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Long, Body, Want

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Umpires, Judging, Decision

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• Dying is not a crime.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Dying, Atheism, Crime

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Hate, Stink, After Death

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• 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

  Doctors, Data, Wish

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• 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

  Moving, Want, Able

  "Kevorkian Tells Gupta ‘Death With Dignity’ Laws Don’t Go Far Enough, Doctors Should Administer Life-Ending Drugs". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Hands, Your Side

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Illegal Things, World, Things To Do

  "Anderson Cooper Tries Out Live Format With Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2010.

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• In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Trying, Ease

  Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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• 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

  Religious, Jail, Common Sense

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Killers, Helping, Patient

  "'Dr. Death' speaks out from jail". Interview With Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. October 5, 2005.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Choices, Fundamentals, Speech

  "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia". Book by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, p. 247, 2006.

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• Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Seductive, Promise, Victory

  "I Can Think of Life, and Nothing Else" by Cliff Walker, January 2002.

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• My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Positive Experiences, Euthanasia, Aim

  "'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian, advocate of assisted suicide, dies in hospital" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Law, Advice, Immoral

  "Words of Wisdom". Book by Mick Farren, p. 122, 2004.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Knows

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Responsibility, Trying, Medical Profession

  " 'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian, advocate of assisted suicide, dies in hospital" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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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

  Taken, Mean, Liberty

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