The phrase dying well seems better suited to describing the end-of-life experience that people desire. It expresses the sense of living, and a sense of process. To my ears it also carries a connotation of courage. Furthermore, dying well expresses what I have witnessed most consistently: that in the very shadow of death one's living experience can yet give rise to accomplishment, within one's own and one's family's system of values.
— Ira Byock, Dying Well