Art Buchwald Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

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.

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.

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

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

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.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

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

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.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

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

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 don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

Wait for them to die