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

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.

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

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.

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

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny

As you meet the needs of others, you will never lack anything.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.