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

Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

- Katy Butler

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

- Katy Butler

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Katy Butler

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

- 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…

- Katy Butler