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"I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer."

Terry Pratchett on Medical

More quotes about Medical

  • "I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."

    Groucho Marx on Medical

  • "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."

    Groucho Marx on Medical

  • "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

    Erma Bombeck on Medical

  • "They certainly give very strange names to diseases."

    Plato on Medical

  • "Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."

    Erma Bombeck on Medical

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

  • "It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone."

  • "There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony."

  • "In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper."

  • "In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper."

  • "The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop."

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