The idea that letting go may be positive can be difficult until we realize that much of life is supposed to be lived with ease. We are not supposed t… - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

When we were children, every experience was rich with possibilities for magic. If we could recapture just a touch of that old feeling and play a little more, we could regain some of our lost innocence. Even as our bodies grow older, we can stay young at heart. We can’t help growing old on the outside, but if we keep playing, we’ll stay young inside.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.