If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

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

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Death is the great transition.