Jack Kevorkian

"I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us."

"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."

"The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death."

"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

"If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad."