Sigmund Freud Quotes

London, September 23, 1939

In 1938, the Nazis annexed Austria. Freud was eighty-two, Jewish, and dying of jaw cancer. He fled to London with his daughter Anna. Four of his sisters stayed behind. All four died in concentration camps. In London, he continued to see patients and write. On September 23, 1939, he asked his doctor Max Schur to end his suffering. Schur administered morphine. Freud died at three in the morning. He had changed how humanity understands itself. He was buried in Golders Green Crematorium.