Jack Kevorkian

“My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering.”

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

“The voluntary self-elimination of individual life is not a crime and therefore not subject to punishment.”

“Dying is not a crime.”

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

“Either we have the right to die or we don't.”

“The issue is medical, not moral. It is a medical issue.”

“Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it protects us from the harsh reality of what it is we are really talking about - death.”

“I have no regrets, none whatsoever.”

“If we can aid people into coming into the world, why can't we aid them in exiting the world?”

“The patient is the one that has to make the decision.”

“There are more important things than the law.”