Peter Jackson Quotes

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

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

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

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

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.

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.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

Years ago I watched my 1st wife suffer through cancer and she went to be with Jesus.

My dad was suffering with cancer for six years and my mum was in coma for three-and-a-half months. So, I have seen the hospital life.

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses, who often work through the night with people, not only suffering from a terminal illness but their families, they're just extraordinary people.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.