Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
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.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.