“There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity.”

“In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. [...] In other words, care for the sick is an economic burden only in health care systems where profit is the bottom line and public services are underfunded and politically unsupported - that is, systems in which only market logic is considered legitimate.”

“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation.”

“Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.”

“Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.”

“I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.”