The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

  • -- Christiaan Barnard 克里斯蒂安·巴纳德

首要目标是减轻痛苦,而不是延长寿命。如果你的治疗不能减轻痛苦,而只能延长生命,那就应该停止治疗。

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Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

科学家们指出,胚胎干细胞为设计治疗这些严重疾病的独特疗法提供了最佳机会,因为与成人干细胞不同,胚胎干细胞可以被诱导发育成任何类型的细胞。

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

从我们在医学实践中的临床经验中我们知道,在诊断、预后和治疗中,个人及其遗传背景与疾病本身同样重要,甚至更重要。

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

原罪说认为所有人都在亚当身上犯了罪;但是,不管他们是否犯了罪,或者这仅仅是一个事实,即所有的人都犯了罪,并不会从根本上影响受苦的问题。

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

阿富汗妇女作为一个群体,我认为她们的苦难是近代世界历史上很少有其他群体能与她们相提并论的。