“I was once in a rig which was inducing considerable pain, and I finally just said… God, you've got it. I can't take it any more. I can't handle it. I'm just putting it entirely in your hands, and from the instant I phrased that… I felt absolutely no pain. In fact, I felt the greatest sense of comfort, not only physical comfort, but psychological warmth and comfort that I have ever felt in my life, before or since.”

—  Jeremiah Denton

Jeremiah http://www.pbs.org/video/alabama-public-television-documentaries-jeremiah/ (2015) 34:07.

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