Jack Kevorkian Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Years, People, Waiting

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• 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

  Sports, Mean, Sheep

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Worst Moments, Moments, Born

  "Kevorkian: 'I have no regrets'". Interview with Ann Arbor, www.cnn.com. June 13, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Suicide, Cheer, Hopeless

  "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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• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Patient

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• My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Different, Areas, Conventional

  "Years of Minutes"‎ by Andy Rooney, (p. 331), 2004.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Knowing, Looks, Prove

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Buttons, Needs

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Jack Kevorkian : Defending Assisted Suicide Right Up to the End". Interview With Jack Lessenberry, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 1993.

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• I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

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  Causes, Hell, Knows

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• 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

  Government, Judging, Criminals

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Cancer, Want, Way

  "Verge Q+A: Dr. Jack Kevorkian". Interview with Howie Kahn, www.gq.com. June 28, 2010.

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Pay, Willing

  "Sanjay Gupta MD", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2010.

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• 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

  Medicine, Profound, Today

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• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Holocaust, Suffering, Way

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  Execution, United States, Nazi

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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• 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

  Want, Born, Said

  "Sanjay Gupta MD", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2010.

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• 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

  Decision, Advice, Want

  "The Kevorkian Verdict". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. May 14, 1996.

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• 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

  Thinking, Agony, Suffering

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• What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

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  Mean, Thinking, Doctors

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Jack Kevorkian : Defending Assisted Suicide Right Up to the End". Interview With Jack Lessenberry, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 1993.

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• 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

  Clothes, Car, Months

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• 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

  Tired, Blessing, Boredom

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Toilets, Cleaning, Demeaning

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

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  Thinking, Doctors, Support

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• We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

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  Honesty, Government, Needs

  "Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run" by Ken Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2008.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Adults

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

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