The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.Polly Toynbee
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Polly Toynbee
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee
What is all that ministerial toil and effort for, if not a constant attempt to allow the greatest number to live in as much happiness as possible
Polly Toynbee
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee
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