Katy Butler

Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

— Katy Butler

I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

— Katy Butler

“Facebook group Slow Medicine, who”

— Katy Butler

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is…

— Katy Butler

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

— Katy Butler

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

— Katy Butler

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

— Katy Butler

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis…

— Katy Butler

We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an…

— Katy Butler

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

— Katy Butler

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

— Katy Butler

“Nothing much will change until we pay doctors and hospitals when they appropriately do less as well as we do when they…

— Katy Butler

“optimistic, science-worshipping culture wants to medicalize aging and make it nothing more than a collection of specific diseases that medicine can prevent…

— Katy Butler

Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so…

— Katy Butler

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount…

— Katy Butler