Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jack Kevorkian (American Pathologist)

Jacob “Jack” Kevorkian (1928–2011,) born Murad Kevorkian, was an American pathologist. Nicknamed “Doctor Death,” he was noted for publicly championing terminally ill patients’ “right to die”—and aiding several patients who wanted to die to reach their goal without suffering.

Born to Armenian immigrants in Pontiac, Michigan, Kevorkian completed his medical studies at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1952. During a residency at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, he arrived at the “turning point” when he watched a “skeletal” woman dying of cancer.

Kevorkian’s career as a “death counselor” began in 1987. He called for the establishment of walk-in suicide clinics. For $30, he built a “Thanatron” or death machine, which allowed patients to dose themselves with an anesthetic and then heart-stopping potassium chloride. He confessed to having assisted more than 100 patients in committing suicide between 1990 and 2000, using injections, carbon monoxide, and his “suicide machine.”

In 1998, CBS 60 Minutes aired a videotape of Kevorkian giving an injection to a man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kevorkian was sentenced to second-degree murder in 1999, served eight years in prison, and was released in 2007. After that, Kevorkian continued to advocate for assisted suicide.

Kevorkian’s life story became the theme of the HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack (2010,) starring Al Pacino, who won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his portrayal.

Kevorkian’s books include Medical Research and the Death Penalty: A Dialogue (1960) and Prescription: Medicide, the Goodness of Planned Death (1991.)

Merrimack College’s Michael DeCesare wrote Death on Demand: Jack Kevorkian and the Right-to-Die Movement (2015.)

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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That’s not a smile.
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