"I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technol…"

"What does one do with such an old machine? It is thrown on the scrap heap. What does one do with a lame horse, with s…"

"If you establish and apply the principle that you can kill 'unproductive' fellow human beings then woe betide us all …"

"There are documented cases of patients suffering from depression, the despair of poverty or homelessness, or the lack…"

"The advocacy group’s euphemistic name, Dying with Dignity, cloaks the fact that its proponents are suggesting killing…"

"We put down mad dogs; we kill the wild, untamed ox; we use the knife on sick sheep to stop their infecting the flock;…"

"It would replace love with law, zapping the private and familial goodwill that has normally attended such end-of-life…"

"Dido, my deare, alas! is dead, Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead. O heavie herse!"

"Underneath this sable herse Lyes the subject of all verse."

"On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent herses shall besiege your gates."