Freedom from pain Quote by Atul Gawande

“Palliative care isn’t only for the dying: any patient with serious symptoms or communication needs can benefit. But for patients approaching the end of…

— Jessica Nutik Zitter

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely…

— Misty Upham

We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses, who often…

— Mel Giedroyc

“The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of…

— Margaret Atwood

It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it's another thing to get on the air and tell everybody about it.

— Art Buchwald

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease…

— Laura Linney

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you…

— George Bernard Shaw

“By not talking about death with our loved ones, not being clear through advanced directives, DNR (do not resuscitate) orders, and funeral plans, we…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family…

— Megory Anderson

Unless they've had some experience with it, the hospice is still a mystery to most people. Because hospice deals with death, people tend not…

— Art Buchwald

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help,…

— Terry Pratchett

Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining…

— Chinmayi