I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better. - Katy Butler
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
- Katy Butler
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. - Katy Butler
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death. - Katy Butler
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do. - Katy Butler
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines. - Katy Butler
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.
Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disab… - Katy Butler
Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disab…
We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that … - Katy Butler
We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that …
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. - Katy Butler
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.
I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I wa… - Katy Butler
I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I wa…
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