“Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?”
— Aldous Huxley, book Time Must Have a Stop
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
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