Laura Linney Quotes

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

I have sat with countless patients and families to discuss grim prognoses: It's one of the most important jobs physicians have. It's easier when the patient is 94, in the last stages of dementia, and has a severe brain bleed. For young people like me - I am 36 - given a diagnosis of cancer, there aren't many words.

I met my future husband Andy fighting for trans equality, and we fell in love. A couple of months after we started dating, Andy was diagnosed with cancer, and despite getting a clean bill of health several months later, eventually his cancer came back, and it was terminal.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.