Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was often portrayed in the media with the biased name of "Dr. Death"; however, many consider him a hero, as he helped set the platform for reform. He famously said, "Dying is not a crime"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth26 May 1928
CityPontiac, MI
CountryUnited States of America
Many support what I am doing.
[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.
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.
The law doesn't create a right.
Liberty means more to me than life itself.
I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
The public can tolerate a Nazi America.
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Everyone is going to die.
Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
I don't persuade to suicide.
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.