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You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.

— Steven Amsterdam

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.

— Ellen G. White

It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

— Daniel A. D'Aniello

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

— Ram Dass

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.

— Arlen Specter

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

— Simon Wiesenthal

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

— Guy Fieri

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

— Samuel Butler

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

— Nina Hagen

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

— Franz Grillparzer

✗Opposing Perspectives

This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

— Gail Sheehy