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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.

— Caitlin Doughty

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

— James Purefoy

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

— Mekhi Phifer

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.

— Dave deBronkart

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

— Ram Dass

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

— Kent Haruf

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

— Stanislav Grof

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

— Aminatta Forna

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.

— Geoff Mulgan

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

— Katherine Dunn

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