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We bear more than pain and sorrow when we depart life. Among the heaviest burdens is apt to be regret, which deserves a word at this point.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind's average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
How much of the "good death" is for the person dying and how much for the person helping him?
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Dying begins with the first act of life.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)
— Sherwin B. Nuland
... death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Moths and flames, mankind and deaththere is little difference. — Sherwin B. Nuland
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Share your optimisms and keep your pessimisms to yourself.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
We are not well served by being lulled into unjustified expectations.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.
— Dr. Sherwin Nuland
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
