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“Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and that their patients had noticed they weren't fully present.”
― Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

tags: death-and-dying, empathy, grief, medicine

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“...we spoke about dying. [Prim] told me how she'd nearly died of malaria. She said that she didn't mind the thought of death. That realizing you're going to die actually makes life better as it's only then that you decide to live the life you really want to live.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: death-and-dying

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“Without guidance and support for patients and families approaching death, there may be unnecessary conflict, confusion, and trauma that linger long after the passing of a loved one.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

tags: approaching-death, death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, end-of-life, passing, passing-away, support, supporting-others

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“The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

tags: death-and-dying, palliative-care

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“We didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn’t know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

tags: death, death-and-dying

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