Jacob M. Appel Quotes - Page 2

• While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

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  Order, Organization, People

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

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  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

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  Dying, Ink, Guarantees

  "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

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  Sex, Difficult, Persuading

  "The Biology of Luck". Book by Jacob Appel, 2013.

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• This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

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  Electric Shock, Empty Rooms, White

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.62, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

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  Dream, Used, Convincing

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• I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

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  Giving, Married, Give Me

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• A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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  People, Monkeys, Today

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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

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  Long, World, Wonder

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.23, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

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  People, Body, Congress

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

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  Country, Born, Convinced

  "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Book by Jacob M. Appel, 2012.

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• If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

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  Mean, Care, Medical

  "A Culture of Liberty" by Jacob M. Appel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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