Katy Butler Quotes

• To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

  Katy Butler

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• Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.

  Katy Butler

  Home, Independent, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

  Katy Butler

  Political, Care, End Of Life

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

  Katy Butler

  Home, People, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

  Katy Butler

  Giving, Parent, Succeed

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  Katy Butler

  Machines, Want, Wanting To Die

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

  Katy Butler

  Doctors, People, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

  Katy Butler

  Want, Break, Questioning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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