Terminally Ill Quotes

• Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Meaningful, Good Life, Views

  "Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?". The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2009.

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• The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.

  P. D. James

  Father, Men, Land

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.41, Vintage

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Healthy, Elements, Littles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

  Brittany Maynard

  Pain, Suffering, Dying

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• The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.

  Ted Nugent

  Spiritual, Real, Kids

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Views, Healthy, Brain

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• Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

  Tyler Farr

  Kids, Tears, Disease

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• When you spend as much time as I do with wounded warriors and their families, and terminally ill kids and their families, you are humbled and powerfully inspired by their courage and positive energy to live your life to the absolute best you can everyday. It will wake you up really fast to never stop believing.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Kids, Warrior

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• Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Atheism, Groups

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• By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Law, Two, Drug

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• Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

  Eric Davis

  Children, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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