To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.