29 Quotes By 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 on age

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 on business

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

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian on death

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian on death

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
Jack Kevorkian on death

You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Jack Kevorkian on death

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

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

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 on experience

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Jack Kevorkian on experience

Fear controls you.
Jack Kevorkian on fear

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian on fear

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 on food

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
Jack Kevorkian on freedom

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.
Jack Kevorkian on government

Let's hope you feel better now.
Jack Kevorkian on hope

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 on medical

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 on medical

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