Michael Schiavo Quotes

So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Death should not be a taxable event.

Have a conversation with your family about your end-of-life wishes while you are healthy. No one wants to have that discussion... but if you do, you'll be giving your loved ones a tremendous gift, since they won't have to guess what your wishes would have been, and it takes the onus of responsibility off of them.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.