Death With Dignity Quotes

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

  Sue Rodriguez

  Life, Death, Suicide

  Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

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• Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

  Ricky Gervais

  Inspirational, Positive, Friends

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jun 17, 2014

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• I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Dignity, Process, Dies

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• 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 frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Reality, Humanity, Dying

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

  Susan Sarandon

  Death, Dying, Way

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• I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

  Brittany Maynard

  Movement, Dignity, Mass

  "Brittany Maynard: A Tragedy, But Not a Controversy" by Margie Omero, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2014.

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• There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

  Primo Levi

  Courage, Men, Dignity

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Suicide, Responsibility, Compassion

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• I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

  Shap Smith

  Believe, Years, House

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