Top 60 Sherwin B. Nuland Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Far from being irreplaceable, we should be replaced. Fantasies of staying the hand of mortality are incompatible with the best interests of our species and the continuity of humankind’s progress. More directly, they are incompatible with the best interests of our very own children. Tennyson says it clearly: “Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.”

51. “Far from being irreplaceable, we should be replaced. Fantasies of staying the hand of mortality are incompatible with the best interests of our species and the continuity of humankind’s progress. More directly, they are incompatible with the best interests of our very own children. Tennyson says it clearly: “Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Carolyn had told me that while he was still able, Bob had arranged to have his favorite words from his favorite work of Dickens inscribed on his grave marker, but still I was unprepared for their effect when actually seen. Engraved across the granite face of the footstone was the epitaph by which Bob DeMatteis had chosen to be remembered: “And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.”

52. “Carolyn had told me that while he was still able, Bob had arranged to have his favorite words from his favorite work of Dickens inscribed on his grave marker, but still I was unprepared for their effect when actually seen. Engraved across the granite face of the footstone was the epitaph by which Bob DeMatteis had chosen to be remembered: “And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Since human beings first began to write, they have recorded their wish for an idealized ending some call the “good death,” as if any of us can ever be sure of it or have any reason to expect it. There are pitfalls of decision-making to be sidestepped and varieties of hope to seek, but beyond that we must forgive ourselves when we cannot achieve some preconceived image of dying right.”

53. “Since human beings first began to write, they have recorded their wish for an idealized ending some call the “good death,” as if any of us can ever be sure of it or have any reason to expect it. There are pitfalls of decision-making to be sidestepped and varieties of hope to seek, but beyond that we must forgive ourselves when we cannot achieve some preconceived image of dying right.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.”

54. “No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their.”

55. “The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”

56. “It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man’s history can outlive his brain.”

57. “Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man’s history can outlive his brain.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “The patient dies alone among strangers: well-meaning, empathetic, determinedly committed to sustaining his life – but strangers nonetheless.”

58. “The patient dies alone among strangers: well-meaning, empathetic, determinedly committed to sustaining his life – but strangers nonetheless.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “This is the period when hard decisions are faced by families, having to do with the insertion of feeding tubes and the vigor with which medical measures should be taken to fend off those natural processes that descend like jackals – or perhaps like friends – on debilitated people.”

59. “This is the period when hard decisions are faced by families, having to do with the insertion of feeding tubes and the vigor with which medical measures should be taken to fend off those natural processes that descend like jackals – or perhaps like friends – on debilitated people.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Beyond the curiosity and the problem-solving challenge fundamental to good research, I believe that the fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science.”

60. “Beyond the curiosity and the problem-solving challenge fundamental to good research, I believe that the fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “Unless we are aware that we are dying and so far as possible know the conditions of our death, we cannot share any sort of final consummation with those who love us. Without this consummation, no matter their presence at the hour of passing, we will remain.”

61. “Unless we are aware that we are dying and so far as possible know the conditions of our death, we cannot share any sort of final consummation with those who love us. Without this consummation, no matter their presence at the hour of passing, we will remain.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland Quote: “The difference between CVA as a terminal event and CVA as a cause of death is the difference between a worldview that recognizes the inexorable tide of natural history and a worldview that believes it is within the province of science to wrestle against those forces that stabilize our environment and our very civilization.”

62. “The difference between CVA as a terminal event and CVA as a cause of death is the difference between a worldview that recognizes the inexorable tide of natural history and a worldview that believes it is within the province of science to wrestle against those forces that stabilize our environment and our very civilization.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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