End of Life Planning Quotes

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Death should not be a taxable event.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

The best way to die is sit under a tree, eat lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer, then blow up.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

Coffin sales people would like to have a plague every year.

We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.