Jack Kevorkian Quotes on Ethics
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Dying is not a crime.
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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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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.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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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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?
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.
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You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?
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I don't like to think of him as the 'Doctor of Death', I think of him as a liberator.
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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.