It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we w… - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

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.

Tu ser querido fue fuerte para pasar por todo lo que pasó mientras combatía la enfermedad. Y fue todavía más fuerte cuando finalmente se dejó ir hacia lo desconocido, muriendo con fuerza, no con debilidad.