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I don't see how dying cancer patients are a grave threat to anyone. I've seen it before, and what it tells me is that it doesn't quite matter where you are in the days before the disease claims you—you aren't going anywhere.
And wouldn't it have cost more to care for him in prison rather than send him to his family?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 08-21-2009 at 11:08 AM..
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