'The Top Doc'

"What people didn't understand about Doctor Koop is that he is pro-life in the purest sense of the word: not anti-death, but pro-life. I have seen him with thousands of people- malnourished children, Washington socialites, dying AIDS patients, abused wives, abortion-rights activists- and he treats everyone of them a if he truly believes, which he does, that they are created in the image of God. He'll interrupt his busy schedule to meet with some disturbed person who insists on talking to 'the top doc.' He truly does respect the value of all human life." The Embattled Career of Dr. Koop | Christianity Today

"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:26-27

Dr. C Everett Koop, on death and dying, The End Is Not the End