Death Quote by Michael J. Collins

“I believe it’s imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching.”

— Lisa J. Shultz

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is.”

— James Lee Burke

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients…

— Atul Gawande

“ We are unable to envision death without the life within us which full aware of it. ”

— Sorin Cerin

“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”

— Columba Stewart

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

“I didn’t know. But if I did not know what I wanted, I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler:…

— Paul Kalanithi

“He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.”

— Barbara Wood

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to…

— David Jeffrey

“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during…

— DEAN MAFAKO, M.D

“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;”

— Robert Charles Wilson