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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
Dying is not a crime.
— Jack Kevorkian
The patient decides when it's best to go.
— Jack Kevorkian
I'm not a romantic.
— Jack Kevorkian
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
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.
— Jack Kevorkian
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
— Jack Kevorkian
I'm not lying to myself like most people.
— Jack Kevorkian
The public can tolerate a Nazi America.
— Jack Kevorkian
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.
— Jack Kevorkian
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
— Jack Kevorkian
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
— Jack Kevorkian
I can paint in jail.
— Jack Kevorkian
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
— Jack Kevorkian
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
— Jack Kevorkian
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
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with ... we talk.
— Jack Kevorkian
How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
— Jack Kevorkian
I don't persuade to suicide.
— Jack Kevorkian
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
— Jack Kevorkian
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
— Jack Kevorkian
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
— Jack Kevorkian
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
— 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
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
— Jack Kevorkian
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
— Bill Dedman
Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
— Jack Kevorkian
The single worst moment of my life ... was the moment I was born.
— Jack Kevorkian
The law doesn't create a right.
— Jack Kevorkian
The law is cruel.
— Jack Kevorkian
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
Everyone is going to die.
— Jack Kevorkian
Many support what I am doing.
— Jack Kevorkian
When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.
— 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
I am not a sentimental person.
— Jack Kevorkian
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
— Jack Kevorkian
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
— Jack Kevorkian
I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
— Jack Kevorkian
Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
— Jack Kevorkian
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
We are all terminal.
— Jack Kevorkian
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
— Jack Kevorkian
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
— Jack Kevorkian
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
— Jack Kevorkian
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
— Jack Kevorkian
I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
— Jack Kevorkian
I'm not radical.
— 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'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
— Jack Kevorkian
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
— Jack Kevorkian
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
— Jack Kevorkian
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
— Jack Kevorkian
Liberty means more to me than life itself.
— Jack Kevorkian
Let's hope you feel better now.
— Jack Kevorkian
I don't crave publicity, you know.
— Jack Kevorkian