Neal Shusterman Quotes

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

These end of life decisions are so difficult and so personal that government ought to stay out of it.

We don’t have a right to die; we have a duty to die.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It is time to go.

The right time to die is never exactly now.

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

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.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

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 victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.