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People die because they find living too painful.

— Malcolm Fraser

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

— Johnny Thunders

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

— Havelock Ellis

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

— Lewis Thomas

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

— Henry Van Dyke

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.

— Lobsang Tenzin

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

— Charles Lamb

✗Opposing Perspectives

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

— Steven Pinker

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

— Jim Morrison

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

— Lewis Thomas