Jack Kevorkian

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

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.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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