End of Life Choices Quotes

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

I don't want to be buried in a Red Sox casket.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.