You Don't Know Jack (2010 TV Movie)

Danny Huston: Geoffrey Fieger

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• Jack Kevorkian : It's emotionalism. You know, when heart transplants first started... there was the same prevalent feeling, I mean, even among doctors... that it was wrong, it was contrary to God's will, contrary to nature. Isn't it ghoulish to rip a person's chest open and take out a heart? Or a bypass operation? Ether is the same thing. You have ether, been around for centuries, it wasn't used. Not till 1846. It was discovered in 1543... and before that, everybody was being operated on while they were awake. Surgeons were cutting them open while they were awake. Did you know that, Geoff?

  Geoffery Fieger : No.

  Jack Kevorkian : On, yes. And you know why it was banned? Because of religious dogma. Because of the foolish notion... that there's a God Almighty who wills us to suffer.

• Geoffery Fieger : The court of appeals' ruling just came in and they ruled in our favor. They said that the law was so poorly worded that it could not be upheld.

  Jack Kevorkian : Oh. Well, I'm glad to hear there's still some smart people in power left.

  Geoffery Fieger : That was the good news. They also ruled that there's no constitutional right to commit suicide...

  Jack Kevorkian : I take back what I just said.

  Geoffery Fieger : ...and that aiding in one falls under an old common-law definition of murder.

  Jack Kevorkian : Common law? What the hell is that?

• Geoffery Fieger : I'm going to kick your ass 'til my legs fall off.