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.

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

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

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.

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

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

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