An idea of health that does not generously and gracefully accommodate the fact of death is obviously incomplete. The crudest manifestation of modern medicine is its routine, stubborn, and finally cruel resistance to death. This comes of the refusal to accept death not only as part of health, which it demonstrably is, but also as a great mystery both in itself and as part of the mystery that surrounds us all our lives. The medical industry's resistance is only sometimes an instance of scientific heroism; sometimes it is the fear of what we don't know anything about.
-Wendell Berry, Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
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