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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients’ dis-ease.

— Jack Kevorkian Prescription: Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death (1993)

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