#ld

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#fact #generous #get #kind #more

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#basically #humanity #many #people #place

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#day #fire #his #life #man

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#much #rather #someone #something #unless

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#any #certain #cost #cruel #elderly

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#choose #die #fatal #help #i

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#basic #bloody #called #concepts #fact