Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.