At the End of Life Quotes

“grief is not like clinical depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety, which can be diagnosed and treated. The grieving need someone to say “I see you, I hear you, I understand you are hurting and you can tell me more.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don’t believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“this: what matters is not how we die but rather why we choose to live.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“Eden Alternative and the Green House Project,”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“elders need better choices for living out their lives with assistance and dignity.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“We use enough metal in caskets and underground vaults that we could rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge every January. The embalming fluid they pumped into my grandfather causes a higher incidence of leukemia and brain and colon cancer in funeral directors. The waste from the dead, along with embalming fluids, is pumped into the sewer, draining straight off the embalming table and down the drain, accompanied by the bleach that’s used to disinfect the body.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“Embalming fluid is highly carcinogenic,”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“Marcin Chwistek is a physician who specializes in cancer pain management and palliative care.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“The nature of things dictates that we must leave those dear to us. Everything born contains its own cessation,”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“some houses have life—are home, are dwellings—and others don’t. Dwelling is an old-fashioned word we’ve misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“People go to a hospital to get fixed up and then return home. But people generally go to a nursing home fully expecting to get worse and die,”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“Kristen Murphy,”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“When a life ebbs away, it is peaceful and painless.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“A son is a son until he takes a wife; a daughter is a daughter all of your life.”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forwards. —Søren Kierkegaard”
― Lee Gutkind, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die