Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche,… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image