Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes

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.

Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

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

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

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

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

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.

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.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

We could keep his body going, but it was trying its hardest to die.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it's another thing to get on the air and tell everybody about it.