Quotes from Jack Kevorkian


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


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


I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


I'm not lying to myself like most people.


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.


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.


I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.


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


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.


My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.