Katy Butler Quotes

United States, Journalist
1949

Katy Butler is an American journalist, essayist and author of Knocking on Heaven's Door, the Path to a Better Way of Death, (Scribner, 2013) and The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Simon & Schuster, 2019).

Also known as Essayist, Author

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.

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- Life
- Experience
- Death
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

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- Die
- Machines

Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.

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

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- Break
- Longevity
- Taboo
I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

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

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

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- Care
- Rail
- Grapple
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
- People
- Crisis
- Doctors

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

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- Better
- To Do
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

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- Death
- Parents
- Ideal