[The prosecutor] calls it a crime, a murder, a killing, ... I call it a medical service. Youk came to me and said, 'Please help me.' The aim was a final solution to incurable agony. |
[Tracy Ward was awarded third place in the feature writing category for her interview with] Dr. Death ... an excellent job of providing narrative mortar' to cement the quotes from Jack Kevorkian in place. |
a day or a year and a day and probation. |
All we have to do to solve the whole controversy is have the medical profession come forward (and) lay the guidelines down, ... The guidelines say only certain doctors can do it, and if you don't, we're going to punish you. |
Because I'm very forthright and strident, |
Either they go or I go, |
Either they go or I go, ... If I'm acquitted, they go, because they know they'll never convict me. If I'm convicted, I will starve to death in prison, so I will go. |
He (Youk) didn't want to die, |
I did, ... But it could be manslaughter, not murder. It's not necessarily murder. But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what it is. This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. |
I don't think that Dr. Kevorkian, by martyring himself, does anybody any good, |
I intended to do my duty. Not murder, |
publicize his own political agenda. |
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, you'd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldn't be strident? |
the public can tolerate a Nazi America. |
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, ... There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. |