Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.