Katy Butler Quotes

• To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

  Katy Butler

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• Gastemos menos en intentar arreglar lo irreparable en los últimos cinco años de vida y gastemos más en apoyar a las personas para que puedan permanecer lo menos discapacitadas posible, lo más independientes que puedan, y mantenerlas en casa.

  Katy Butler

  Home, Independent, Years

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

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• 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.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Modern

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

  Katy Butler

  Pensamiento, Gente, Sufrimiento

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

  Katy Butler

  Political, Care, End Of Life

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• Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

  Katy Butler

  Home, People, Three

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

  Katy Butler

  Giving, Parent, Succeed

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• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  Katy Butler

  Machines, Want, Wanting To Die

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• 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."

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

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• 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.

  Katy Butler

  Doctors, People, Want

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

  Katy Butler

  Want, Break, Questioning

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