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  • There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

  • With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

    Suicide   Fate   Science  
  • All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

    Self   Hatred   Suffering  
    Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.6, Bantam
  • I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

    Travel   Fear   Airports  
  • Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

    Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
  • We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

    Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR (2017). “Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense”, p.76, Ignatius Press
  • Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

  • I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

    "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.
  • Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

    Kids   Illness   Pale  
    Kevin Rudd's remarks during the press conference at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. April 6, 2009.
  • If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

  • The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

    Godly   Views   Decision  
  • From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

    "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.
  • We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

    Source: therumpus.net
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