Death and dying Quote by Lisa J. Shultz

“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

Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way…

— Jonathan Falwell

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths,…

— Laura Wade

“She cannot help but see a lifespan as a journey, indeed as a pilgrimage. This isn’t fashionable these days, but it’s her way of…

— Margaret Drabble

“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

“We do not (and will not) have the resources to properly care for our increasing elderly population, yet we insist on medical intervention to…

— Caitlin Doughty

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

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it…

— Erica Jong

“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“When I reflect on the stories of death supported by hospice care and contrast it with our story depicting an absence of support, I…

— Lisa J. Shultz

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

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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