'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work.… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“For many of the dying, intensive care, with its isolation among strangers, extinguishes their hope of not being abandoned in the last… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. Not… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
