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

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

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.

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.

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 want to allow natural death in such a situation."

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.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

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

I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

Change happens, when we replace fear with hope.

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.