Creative Dying Quotes

“No one ever asks us if we want to be alive, doc. It just happens. Why wouldn’t it be the same with death? We’re always getting things we don’t ask for.”
― jarred thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“Comfort is one of our top priorities. The best decisions are made from a position of comfort.” I looked down a little, looking back the way I came. “Fear is normal,” says Mustafa, noticing my slacked pace. “If you’d like to turn back now, you’re welcome to. This isn’t Sodom and Gomorrah.” His body faces forward, but his face is turned back to me. “I don’t want to be afraid.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“She thought about their time at Bridge Builders Hospice: how people passed through those bedrooms like ghosts on wrecked rowboats, incapable of redirecting course from the approaching cliff. She had witnessed it many times: the moment dying became a letting, and the currents plunged their patients, headfirst, into waterfalls so misty it was like sailing through cloud. Resist it nor not, it made no difference.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“Dianne, when you’re reconciled to the reality that you have been dying, that death is the condition of your survival, your growth, the very earth you walk on… you feel a shift, an appreciation.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying