"I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful."
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Sherwin B. Nuland (1930-2014) was a renowned American surgeon, author, and educator, celebrated for his profound insights into the human condition and the complexities of medicine. With a medical career spanning decades, Nuland brought a humane perspective to the field, most notably in his acclaimed book, *How We Die*, which explores mortality with both candor and compassion. A faculty member at Yale University, he inspired many through his teaching and writings, leaving an enduring legacy that continues to resonate in discussions about life, death, and the art of healing.
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"Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere."
Sherwin B. Nuland
"The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government."
Sherwin B. Nuland"Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria."
Sherwin B. Nuland
"I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good."
Sherwin B. Nuland"'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms."
Sherwin B. Nuland