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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Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

医院必须为所有进门的人提供紧急治疗,无论他们的公民身份或支付能力如何。

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

地狱是什么?我认为那是无法去爱的痛苦。

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了。