I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.
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.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.
I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."