Maeve Binchy Quotes

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

It's just awful to see her like this. There comes a point when euthanasia is kinder than the alternative, and I think we reached that juncture some time ago.

We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

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.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

We can end cancer as we know it.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

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

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.