Michael Greger Quotes

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

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

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

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

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

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

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 realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Wait for them to die

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

I was told I wouldn't live past 30 or have children.

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.

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

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

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

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.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.