Jean Kerr Quotes

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.

Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.

I take classes to be a mortician.

I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.

On 'Six Feet Under,' I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn't really my role.

Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

Unless they've had some experience with it, the hospice is still a mystery to most people. Because hospice deals with death, people tend not to talk about it.

Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.

I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.