Abiding Quote by Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life…

— 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 we live…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.

— Bhagat Puran Singh

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called…

— Yukio Mishima

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

— 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 finality of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Dignity is an inherent value and human virtue which represents the best of mankind.”

— Susan C. Young

Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We…

— Ronald Dworkin

“Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I…

— Paulo Coelho

“The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi as ars…

— Sherwin B. Nuland