Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.