Sherwin B. Nuland

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

'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

“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated.…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“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

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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

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

The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I've seen so many patients, particularly elderly patients, over the years who become debilitated and changed by the process by which I…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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