12 Jack Kevorkian Quotes on Ethics

Jack Kevorkian quotes on ethics

2. Dying is not a crime.

3. My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

5. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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?

21. She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

28. When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

30. This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

31. You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?

33. I don't like to think of him as the 'Doctor of Death', I think of him as a liberator.

35. There will be those who will be Kevorkian with class. They will look respectable. They will sound respectable. Their patients will be just as dead.