1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Ο βράζος ήταν γι' αυτό σαν μια πελώρια σκληρή πόρτα που άνοιγε σ' έναν άλλο κόσμο. Μια έκρηξη φόβου, πόνου και σκοτεινιάς τη στιγμή της πρόσκρουσης κι ύστερα βρέθηκε να πλανιέται σκυβέρνητος σ' έναν άγνωστο, παράξενο ουρανό, να ξεχνάει, να θυμάται και πάλι να ξεχνάει. Φοβισμένος, θλιμμένος και μετανιωμένος, φοβερά μετανιωμένος.

My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever known. She had total focus, an attribute that deeply impressed me. She taught me by example that how we live impacts how we die. She lived a life of courage, beauty, and integrity; she died in the same manner.

No matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay. And you wave them off. You lie.

Death is the great equalizer of human beings. Death is the boundary that we need to measure the precious texture of our lives. All people owe a death. There is no use vexing about inevitable degeneration and death because far greater people than me succumbed to death’s endless sleep without living as many years as me.

TGWA: Thank God We’re Alive. TGWE: Thank God We’re Eternal.

A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.