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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

— Christiaan Barnard Attributed

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I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

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