Terry Pratchett Quotes

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

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.

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

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

The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

I would fain die a dry death.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

I want nothing but death.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.