Michael Ian Black Quotes

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Wait for them to die

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

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

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.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)