“Let not the usual abstract arguments be brought to me, like the sacredness of life: no one contests the right of everyone to arrange their own life, I don't see why their own death has to be contested.”

—  Indro Montanelli

cited in Enrico Bonerandi, Montanelli: pronto a morire http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/12/13/montanelli-pronto-morire.html, in la Repubblica, 13 December 2000, p. 36.
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