Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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.
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The law is cruel.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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I can paint in jail.
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
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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.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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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.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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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.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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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.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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Let's hope you feel better now.