Quotes about End of life care

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The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful ext — Gabriel García Márquez
I entered the picture in the eleventh hour as a guide to the exit of his life. I navigated as best I could the role of e — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
It took until the end of her life for me to cherish each day with my mother the way I naturally did with my brother. At — Darcy Leech, From My Mother
I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep.” “That’s all — Annie Fisher, The Greater Picture
When I reflect on the stories of death supported by hospice care and contrast it with our story depicting an absence of — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
I believe it’s imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. — Samuel Shem, The House of God
[We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And w — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a soc — Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era