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.
Sherwin B. NulandThe belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and societyโs, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying personโs humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
Sherwin B. Nuland