There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying slips easily into the glove of the act itself. It is in character, ego-syntonic. It, the death, fits the person. It is a death that one might choose if it were realistically possible for one to choose one's own death.


Voices of Death (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1980)

Edwin S. Shneidman Quotes

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is appropriate for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying...

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is appropriate for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying...

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is appropriate for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying...

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is appropriate for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying...