Cases Quote by Atul Gawande

My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

— Hardin B. Jones

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

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

Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and…

— Marcia Angell

Life is too short when you think of the length of death.

— Sean Mangan

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

— Seneca the Younger

They say life is short, yes it's small. And a grave is six feet, so I guess death is tall.

— Papoose

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

— Stefan Karl Stefansson

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

— Eleanor Clift

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

— Zig Ziglar

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

— Bill Vaughan

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

— Romain Rolland