How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
Jack Kevorkian
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RANDY DUNTON Rejoice in hope. Be patient in suffering. Persevere in prayer.
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DAN RATHER I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
MARLENE DUMAS This is a case of mercy, not murder. No jury will ever convict Dr. Kevorkian.
DAVID GOROSH If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the tim...
EULA BISS Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.
CARLEEN COURTNEY I don't think that Dr. Kevorkian, by martyring himself, does anybody any good,
JACK KEVORKIAN How long have you known me, Jack? And you 'still' can't spell my name.
YOGI BERRA The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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JACK KEVORKIAN Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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JACK KEVORKIAN I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
JACK KEVORKIAN Everyone is going to die.
JACK KEVORKIAN Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
JACK KEVORKIAN She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
JACK KEVORKIAN Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life....
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JACK KEVORKIAN My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
JACK KEVORKIAN Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a...
JACK KEVORKIAN First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any...
JACK KEVORKIAN The patient decides when it's best to go.
JACK KEVORKIAN My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed...
JACK KEVORKIAN As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and a...
JACK KEVORKIAN You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
JACK KEVORKIAN My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
JACK KEVORKIAN I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those respon...
JACK KEVORKIAN I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy...
JACK KEVORKIAN The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - t...
JACK KEVORKIAN The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't...
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JACK KEVORKIAN Let's hope you feel better now.
JACK KEVORKIAN If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
JACK KEVORKIAN I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
JACK KEVORKIAN All we have to do to solve the whole controversy is have the medical profession come forward (and) l...
JACK KEVORKIAN The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If...
JACK KEVORKIAN This could never be a crime no matter what words are written on paper... just like it was never a cr...
JACK KEVORKIAN I did, ... But it could be manslaughter, not murder. It's not necessarily murder. But it doesn't bot...
JACK KEVORKIAN In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ ...
JACK KEVORKIAN Dying is not a crime.
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JACK KEVORKIAN What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
JACK KEVORKIAN All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental h...
JACK KEVORKIAN Either they go or I go, ... If I'm acquitted, they go, because they know they'll never convict me. I...
JACK KEVORKIAN Either they go or I go,
JACK KEVORKIAN the public can tolerate a Nazi America.
JACK KEVORKIAN I intended to do my duty. Not murder,
JACK KEVORKIAN [The prosecutor] calls it a crime, a murder, a killing, ... I call it a medical service. Youk came t...
JACK KEVORKIAN Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble...
JACK KEVORKIAN There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a c...
JACK KEVORKIAN I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
JACK KEVORKIAN Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use...
JEANETTE CORON By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
BILL DEDMAN The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things a...
COLLEEN HOOVER People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all w...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over...
JOHN LEWIS Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.
CLINT WALKER Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Offensively, we're very limited in what we can do, and we talked over and over again about resetting...
DAVE MARTIN We've been patient with them. But how long do you leave this go?
LEE PRESSLER The simplest of things can leave you with the regret of something not done, but it takes something m...
E.R. ROCK Jack & Bobby ... Sometimes the greatest people can be seated right next to you.
BRAD MELTZER When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's ...
MARCIA ANGELL You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
JOANN THOMAS Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
JOANN THOMAS Actions as a result of hatred give us a temporary satisfaction. But,It is better if we can be patien...
NISHI DE SILVA Never Regret If You Have Problems But Be Happy You Have Problems Because That's How You Learn To Sol...
MELITA FERNANDES You have to be really patient against a team like us because we can be really scrappy and irritate y...
ERLANA LARKINS How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all ...
RAMAKRISHNA I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instea...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You do not know the Name of the Lord. You fool - you shall regret and repent in the end! You bury yo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people mon...
PENN JILLETTE Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
DODIE SMITH Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that s...
BEVERLY CLEARY I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Helping others is one of the greatest gifts you can give.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how ...
KAREN SALMANSOHN A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can o...
GEORGE FOREMAN what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is h...
MARK TWAIN If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been wit...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Notice how fast the weeks go by. That's how fast your life will go. If you are not living your ideal...
LORRIN L. LEE Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.
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JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER